Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellowships

2025 Whitehurst Summer Fellows: (l-r) Brady Miller ’26, Noor Saleh ’26, Makenna McGraw ’26, and Angelina Ramirez ‘26

The Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellowships Program provides summer funding for students between their second and third years of law school. Preference is given to students who intend to pursue careers in public interest law. The program addresses these students’ particular need to work in public interest positions during the summer before their third year of school in order to be viable candidates for public interest fellowships and jobs following graduation.

In summer 2025, the program will provide a stipend of $8,000 for up to 4 students for at least 10 weeks of work under the supervision of an attorney at a qualified sponsoring organization. A sponsoring organization must be 1) a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit providing legal services and/or advocacy to underrepresented individuals or communities or 2) a government office providing indigent defense. Government agencies (except offices providing indigent defense), labor unions, and legislative offices do not qualify as sponsoring organizations.

These fellowships are supported by a generous multi-year gift from Stephanie Whitehurst and Bill Whitehurst, ‘70. The Whitehursts have named the fellowships for lawyers and others they admire in hopes that the recipients will be inspired by the honorees’ work in the public interest.

For more information, please email: justicecenter@law.utexas.edu

Application Information

Eligible applicants include Texas Law rising third-year (3L) JD students.

Applications for the Justice Center named fellowships are due by 12 PM CT on Friday, March 7, 2025. Please apply using the online application linked on this page. The selected fellows will be announced by March 31, 2025.