Each spring the Mithoff Program recognizes students who excel in their commitment to pro bono service. The Mithoff Program’s Pro Bono Awards include:
- Pro Bono Beacons: Recognizes the students in each Texas Law class who have donated the most hours of pro bono service.
- Pro Bono Torchbearers: Recognizes graduating students who have donated 100 or more hours of pro bono service.
- Pro Bono Honors: Recognizes graduating students who have fulfilled their Pro Bono Pledge.
1L and 2L students who’ve met their pro bono benchmarks also are recognized at the annual pro bono awards event.
2025 Pro Bono Award Honorees
Beacons
Students in each Texas Law Class who have donated the most hours of pro bono service.
1L
Will Bonds
Taoshu Ren
Camila Valeria Soler
2L
Shelby Alexander
MaKenna McGraw
Sean Steck
3L
Lizeth Badillo Garcia
Gabrielle Olubanke Howells
David Meyer Merlinsky
LLM
Santiago Mesa
Juliana Sanchez Vallejo
Xintibo
Pro Bono Honors
3Ls who have fulfilled the 50-hour pro bono pledge
(Torchbearers with 100 or more hours of service are starred)
Aadi Aadireddy
Noah Aldea
Clara Altfeld*
Kaitlyn Ameny
Katelyn Anderson
Alyssa Arellano
Luca Azzariti Crousillat
Lizeth Badillo Garcia*
Katherine Bartos
Morgan Bates
Zachary Berger*
Parker Blackburn
Cameron Blotcky*
Mattie Brau
Marissa Bucci
Benjamin Budner
Cate Byrne*
Brennan Caruthers
Catherine Choi
Sarah Conley
Laura Cox*
Katherine Daffin
Clayton Dana-Bashian
Haley DeHaes
Paul DiFiore
Nery Domingo
Nicholas Drake*
Ryan Faulkner
Madison Fleischaker*
Ari Fletcher-Bai
Brittany George
Mary Geren
Rowan Gossett*
Shelley Grostefon
Apurva Gunturu
Mariah Hall
AnaRose Hebein*
Taylor Helmcamp
Sophia Hess
Jackson High
Emma Hoffman
Kelly Hogan
Ashlyn Hohenshelt Dillinger
Emma Jane Hopper*
Gabby Howells*
Anna Huthnance
Imran Hyder
Annalee Jeffress
Mackenzie Jeter*
Miriam Jewell*
Shanaya Kassam
Harry Katz*
Kendall Killian*
Eliza Levy*
Jie-Yun Lin
Ashley Little
Gwynn Marotta
Corinne May
Joshua McClain
Audrey McClure*
David Merlinsky*
Natalie Merten*
Santiago Mesa
Clara Migala
Ian Miller*
Alice Min*
Morgan Mosiman
Crystal Ngene
Joe O’Neil*
Rohit Pappu*
Alana Park*
Kimberly Pilatovsky-Snell*
Carolina Quiroga
Mackenzie Rhine
Mariana Rivas*
Circle Robie
Jordee Rodriguez*
David Rodriguez*
Maryn Rolfson Taylor
Juliana Sanchez Vallejo
Abby Sanders
Pamela Santana
Frank Sarno
Allison Schroeder*
Jordan Schuck*
Eliot Schulte*
Allen Sellers
Olivia Shaheen*
Shujie Shao
Meg Solley*
Meredith Spalding
Katherine Spry*
Brianna Terrell*
Amelia Thayer
Laura Turner
Maritza Villanueva Aramayo
Maiya Werba*
Sidney Wiswell
Joyang Wu
Xintibo Xintibo
Thomas Zapata*
Jinhua Zhang*
Past Honorees