Robert A. Nevin ’23 Receives Lawrence I’Anson Award at Law School Commencement
Scholarship, Character, Leadership Dean and Trustee Professor of Law A. Benjamin Spencer presented the award to Nevin. The award is given each year by the law faculty to a member of the graduating class who “has shown evidence of great promise through scholarship, character and leadership.”
Robert A. Nevin ‘23 received the Lawrence W. I'Anson Award, the highest award given to a graduating student by the faculty of William & Mary Law School, during the school’s commencement ceremony at Kaplan Arena on Saturday, May 20. In his remarks, Dean and Trustee Professor of Law A. Benjamin Spencer said that the award is given each year to a member of the graduating class who “has shown evidence of great promise through scholarship, character and leadership.”
Nevin earned his undergraduate degree in Government at Wesleyan University, where he played varsity football. While at William & Mary, he served as a teaching assistant for multiple classes, was a staff member of the William & Mary Law Review, and a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team. He was a summer associate at Latham & Watkins after his second year of law school. Following graduation, he will clerk for Judge Roderick C. Young on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and then for Judge G. Steven Agee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
The award is named in honor of Lawrence W. I’Anson (1907-90), who earned his undergraduate degree at William & Mary and was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 1974 to 1981.
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