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2025 LSU Law Distinguished Alumni Awards

Nomination Form

Thank you for submitting a nomination for the 2025 LSU Law Distinguished Alumni Awards event, which will be held Thursday, May 8, 2025 at the Stadium Club in Tiger Stadium.  We are seeking nominations in one of six categories.  Outstanding Young Alumnus; Alumni Engagement; Service to the Profession; Legal Innovator; Career Champion and Honorary Alumnus.  The value statement and selection criteria for all awards may be found here.  When you specify the category for which you are submitting (last field, this page) the corresponding nomination form appears.  The value statement and selection criteria is repeated on the nomination form.

By definition, LSU Law alumni are exceptional.  Your challenge is to make the case for your nominee.  Be clear, convincing and concise in your effort to persuade us that your nominee best embodies the values implicit in the award criteria.

  • Previous recipients of the Distinguished Alumnus or Distinguished Achievement award are not eligible.  The list of past recipients may be found here.
  • Only one recipient may be selected in each category.
  • The committee reserves the option to make no selection.
  • Every nomination must be sponsored by a member of the Law Dean’s Council. If you are not a member, you may join or you may ask a member to sponsor the nomination.

Submissions close Monday, December 2, 2024 at midnight, central time.

Alumni - 25 Distinguished Alumni Nomination

Nominator Information

Sponsor Information

Who is the LSU Law Dean’s Council member sponsoring this nomination?
(we will confirm this with the sponsoring member)

Nominee Information

Nomination Category

Young Alumnus of the Year

In the first ten years of a lawyer’s career, much time and effort is dedicated to demonstrating value to an employer, carving a professional niche, and building a family.  Many young lawyers are very successful in adding service to the profession, the community and/or the law school to this delicate balance.  These young leaders tend to continue to give priority to service throughout their lives.  They truly make a difference and are to be encouraged at every turn.

This award recognizes one lawyer who has been in practice for ten or fewer years, has demonstrated leadership, and who has benefitted the profession, the community and/or LSU Law Center through direct action or advocacy.

List any professional organizations, along with any leadership roles, the nominee is a part of.
In what ways does the nominee serve the legal profession, their community, and/or the LSU Law Center?
How has the nominee demonstrated leadership skills that are extraordinary for a young alum?
Why do you think the nominee is deserving of this award?

Alumni Engagement

The LSU Law Center would be a different place without alumni who engage in the life of the law school.  Our alumni design and teach classes, counsel students, employ graduates, judge competitions, and contribute money.  They advise the Dean, the Energy Law Center and our Institutes. They provide over half a million dollars in financial aid to students each year, support clinics, advocacy and faculty scholarship.

This award recognizes an alum who graduated in 2012 or earlier who has been of extraordinary service to the Law Center through a combined investment of time, expertise, financial support, and leadership.

In what ways has the nominee contributed to the success of the LSU Law Center?
Why do you think the nominee is deserving of this award?

Service to the Profession

Whether you are deploying your legal skills to advance access to justice or serving sandwiches in a shelter, your humanitarianism serves the profession.  Bar associations, civic clubs, non-profit boards, governmental commissions, art and culture organizations, faith missions – these are just a few of the vehicles through which a graduate can operationalize their passions – doing good and doing it well.

This award recognizes that service to society and to the profession are inseparable.  Its recipient is a graduate of more than 10 years who elevates the profession through extraordinary and consistent leadership in one or more of the many organizations that make a difference in our world.

In what ways has the nominee demonstrated leadership in one or more organizations? Be specific about organizations and some of the outcomes your nominee helped to bring about.
What accomplishments make your nominee deserving of this award?

Legal Innovator

Not every graduate envisions themselves on a partnership track in a law firm. Some never challenge the bar. Others practice for a period of time then pursue other opportunities.  Some just hear “a different drum.”  They leverage their law degrees toward a business endeavor, public/political life, journalism, technology or something as yet uncategorized.

This award recognizes an LSU Law graduate of more than 10 years who created success on the road less travelled.

Tell us about this nominee’s career path and what makes it unusual.
What accomplishments make your nominee deserving of this award?

Career Champion

Of the many attributes by which a law school may be measured, there is none more important than employment outcomes.  Those outcomes are best achieved when we partner with employers to prepare our graduates to be great colleagues.  Students learn professionalism by seeing it in action and having the opportunity to emulate what they see.

This award recognizes a law firm or other organization that has provided significant, consistent contributions toward the advancement of career services, professionalism, and employment outcomes through student programming by such actions as:

  • providing summer employment, clerkships or field placements
  • funding scholarships, fellowships or other academic or professional  programming
  • hiring LSU Law grads
  • interviewing on campus
  • deploying innovative outreach, recruitment and retention practices
Tell us about your approach to recruiting and how it reflects your firm/company culture.
Describe the ways in which the nominee advances career services, professionalism and employment outcomes among LSU students.

Honorary Alumnus

From time-to-time the Law Center experiences acts of advocacy, philanthropy, collaboration, or support originating with someone who did not graduate from LSU Law and for whom “thank you” seems insufficient.

This award recognizes the collegiality most often felt among alumni, but present in the honoree’s relationship with LSU Law as demonstrated by their investment of time, money or professional capital in advancing the mission of the law school.

Note: this award does not confer an honorary degree from LSU Law.

In what ways has the nominee contributed to the success of the LSU Law Center?
What accomplishments make your nominee deserving of this award?

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