Thomas Floyd ’24 Receives Lawrence I’Anson Award at Law School Commencement
Thomas Floyd ’24 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 18.
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.” 
Before law school, Lloyd graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Spanish teacher at Armstrong High School in Richmond for five years. As a law student, he served as lead articles editor for the William & Mary Law Review, was a member of the National Trial Team, earned CALI awards in three classes, and was a teaching assistant for Professor Nancy Combs in Criminal Law.
Lloyd interned for the Honorable John A. Gibney, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he will be returning after graduation
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.