Pro Bono Awards

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

2024 Pro Bono Awards

2023 Pro Bono Awards

2022 Pro Bono Awards

2021 Pro Bono Awards

2020 Pro Bono Awards

2019 Pro Bono Awards

2018 Pro Bono Awards

2017 Pro Bono Awards

2016 Pro Bono Awards

2015 Pro Bono Awards

2014 Pro Bono Awards

2013 Pro Bono Awards

2012 Pro Bono Awards