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The graduating law student with the highest academic average. (last updated, June 17, 2020)
2020: Caroline Louise Crosbie
2019: Joseph DuChane
2018: Katheryn Paige Thomas
2017: Alexandra Lian Klein
2016: Christina Lynne Tacoronti
2015: Tara L. MacNeill
2014: Kyle Adam Dolinsky
2013: Alan James Wenger
2012: Avalon Jonah Frey
2011: Micah Prieb Stoltzfus Jost
2010: Erica Blayre Haggard
2009: Gregory Lawson Schinner
2008: Megan Martha Reed
2007: Erin Laurel Pearson
2006: Steven Robert Ruby
2005: Leslie Evans Wood
2004: Carol Mullen Ching
2003: Lee Richard Goebes
2002: Kara Dianne McDonald
2001: Derron Geoffrey Blakely
2000: Michael Jeffrey Ablelow
1999: Andrew James Gottman
1998: Debra Marie Ingraham
1997: Krista R. Bowen
1996: Brian Alexander Howie
1995: Thomas Christopher Yoder
1994: Kelly Ann Hardin
1993: Robert Melvin Howie
1992: Betsy Ennis Dulin
1991: Rebecca Anne Womeldorf
1990: Joel Alan Waite
1989: Kevin James Henderson (tie)
1989: Ronald Stephen Range (tie)
1988: Heather Ann King
1987: Richard Edward Whalen
1986: Stokely Gray Caldwell Jr.
1985: Charles Augustus Blanchard
1984: Frederick Walter Bogdan
1983: Michael Louis Krancer
1982: Robert Murphy Couch
1981: William Jeffrey Edwards
1980: Thomas B. Henson
1979: William Lee Hallam
1978: David Phillip Falck
1977: James Edwin Nicholson
1976: Allen Chipperfield
1975: Ray Vinton Hartwell III
1974: James Carsten Fitter Jr.
1973: John Murray Mason
1972: Harvey Lockhart Handley III
1971: Harold William Walker Jr.
1970: William Francis Stone Jr.
1969: Carr Lanier Kinder Jr.
1968: William McClure Schildt
1967: James Clyde Treadway Jr.
1966: Rudolph Bumgardner III
1965: Frank Eugene Brown Jr.
1964: Donald Herbert Partington
1963: Timothy Giles Ireland
1962: Macon Cobb Putney
1961: Nicholas Harrington Rodriguez
1960: Frank Carmack Bozeman
1959: Samuel James Thompson Jr.
1958: John Hardin Marion III
1957: Robert Edward Royall Huntley
1956: Beverly Gray Stephenson
1955: William Melville Bailey
1954: Kimber Littlepage White
1953: Thomas Carl Damewood
1952: William Clemens Beatty
1951: John Forester Taylor
1950: Ray Sammons Smith Jr.
1949: Edward Paul Lyons Jr.
1948: Joseph Earl Blackburn
1947: John Lloyd Dorsey Jr.
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