Summer Public Service Fellowships 2019

For Summer 2019, 109 William & Mary law students received public service fellowships totaling $288,345. Students will assist 100 organizations (see list below) in 18 states, the District of Columbia, Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Rwanda, South Africa, and Switzerland.

Generous donations from alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the Law School made these results possible. So did a significant work-study allocation from the university, the extremely hard work of the Public Service Fund, and contributions from employers interviewing on campus. Grants from the Virginia Law Foundation and the Virginia State Bar’s Criminal Law Section also provided meaningful support.

Child Advocacy and Protection
Pegasus Legal Services for Children (Albuquerque, NM)
Virginia Poverty Law Center, Center for Family Advocacy (Richmond, VA)

Civil Legal Aid
California Rural Legal Assistance (Oakland, CA)
Legal Aid Justice Center, Economic Justice Program (Charlottesville, VA)
Legal Aid Justice Center, Economic Justice Program (Richmond, VA)
Legal Aid of Nebraska (Omaha, NE)
Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia (Norfolk, VA) (2)
Legal Aid Works (Tappahannock, VA)

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights
Alliance for Justice, Justice Program (Washington, DC)
Arizona Attorney General, Civil Rights Division (Phoenix, AZ)
California Women’s Law Center (Los Angeles, CA)
National Center for Lesbian Rights (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section (Washington, DC)

Disability Rights
Disability Rights Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
National Association of the Deaf Law & Advocacy Center (Silver Springs, MD)
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section (Washington, DC)

Education
Education Law Center (Philadelphia, PA)
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Hearings and Appeals (Washington, DC)

Election Law/Voting Rights
National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO) (2)

Environmental
Eastern Environmental Law Center (Newark, NJ)
Maryland Attorney General, Department of Natural Resources (Annapolis, MD)
Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (Harrisburg, PA)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (Washington, DC) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel (Washington, DC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Regional Counsel, New York/Caribbean Superfund Branch (New York, NY)

Federal Government Operations
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of General Counsel (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of General Counsel (Washington, DC)

Housing
New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc., Housing Unit (New Haven, CT)

Immigration
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation (Washington, DC)

Indigent Criminal Defense: Federal
Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of Virginia (Norfolk, VA)
Federal Public Defender, Northern District of West Virginia (Clarksburg, WV)

Indigent Criminal Defense: State and Local
Appellate Defender (New York, NY)
Charlottesville-Albemarle Public Defender (Charlottesville, VA)
Colorado Public Defender, Juvenile Defense Team (Colorado Springs, CO)
Fairfax Public Defender (Fairfax, VA)
Hampton Public Defender (Hampton, VA) (3)
Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Practice (New York, NY)
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (Washington, DC)
Norfolk Public Defender (Norfolk, VA)
Northern Virginia Capital Defender (Tysons, VA)
Richmond Public Defender (Richmond, VA)
Staunton Public Defender (Staunton, VA)

Judiciary
The Honorable Rossie Alston, Court of Appeals of Virginia (Manassas, VA)
The Honorable Ann Donnelly, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn, NY)
The Honorable John Gibney, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Richmond, VA)
The Honorable Lois H. Goodman, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Trenton, NJ)
The Honorable Henry Hudson, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Richmond, VA)
The Honorable Jan R. Jurden, Superior Court of Delaware (Wilmington, DE)
The Honorable Lawrence R. Leonard, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Norfolk, VA)
The Honorable LeRoy F. Millette, Supreme Court of Virginia (Richmond, VA)
The Honorable David Novak, United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Richmond, VA) (2)
The Honorable Barry S. Seltzer, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Labor and Employment
National Labor Relations Board (San Francisco, CA)
National Labor Relations Board (Washington, DC)

Military Justice
U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General, Lemoore (Lemoore, CA)

Post Conflict Peacebuilding/Rule of Law
Beijing Children’s Legal Aid and Research Center (Beijing, China)
Center for Legal Aid and Regional Development (Pristina, Kosovo)
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (Prague, Czech Republic)
Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Indonesian Human Rights Commission, Electoral Commission (Jakarta and Padang, Indonesia)
Democracy for Development (Pristina, Kosovo)
Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (Atlanta, GA)
Hamro Samman: Partnerships to Combat Human Trafficking in Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal)
International Bridges to Justice (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
International Bridges to Justice (Kigali, Rwanda)
International Bridges to Justice (Geneva, Switzerland) (2)
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Yangon, Myanmar)
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (The Hague, Netherlands)
Legal Resources Centre (Cape Town, South Africa)
National Center for State Courts, International Programs Division (Arlington, VA)
Open Development Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Open Development Mekong (Yangon, Myanmar)
Supreme Court Chambers, Extraordinary Chambers of Courts of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (The Hague, Netherlands)
U.S. Agency for International Development, Advisory Unit to Government of Jordan, Inter-Ministerial
Committee for Decentralization (Amman, Jordan)
U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington, DC)
U.S. Institute of Peace (Washington, DC)
Winrock Countering Trafficking of Persons (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Winrock Jamaica Child Protection Compact Program (Kingston, Jamaica)

Prosecution: Federal
U.S. Attorney (Alexandria, VA)
U.S. Attorney (Brooklyn, NY)
U.S. Attorney (Newport News, VA) (2)
U.S. Attorney (New York, NY)
U.S. Attorney (Las Cruces, NM)
U.S. Department of Justice, Special Counsel’s Office (Washington, DC)

Prosecution: International
United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Office of the Prosecutor (The Hague, Netherlands)

Prosecution: State and Local
Dallas County District Attorney (Dallas, TX)
James City County Commonwealth’s Attorney (Williamsburg, VA)
Larimer County District Attorney (Fort Collins, CO)
Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney (Newport News, VA) (3)
Union County Prosecutor (Elizabeth, NJ)
Ventura County District Attorney (Ventura, CA)
Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney, Domestic Violence and Juvenile Crime Team (Virginia Beach, VA)

Securities
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Enforcement Division (Washington, DC)

State and Local Government: Civil
New Hampshire Attorney General, Civil Bureau (Concord, NH)
Richmond City Attorney (Richmond, VA)
Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Legal Services (Madison, WI)

Transportation
Federal Maritime Commission, Office of General Counsel (Washington, DC)

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