Thomas F. Blackwell Award – Call for Nominations for 2012 Recipient
The 2011-2012 Blackwell Award Committee invites nominations for one of the most prestigious awards in legal writing, the Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing. The winner will be announced in early fall 2011, and the award will be presented at the 2012 AALS meeting in Washington, DC. A plaque, listing the winners, is on display at Appalachian Law School.
2012 Blackwell Award Criteria, Submission Instructions and Information,
Deadline, and Eligibility
Award Criteria
Honoring the life of Thomas F. Blackwell for his personal and professional qualities as a Legal Writing educator, the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors give this award to recognize a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of Legal Writing by demonstrating:
- An ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence;
- a willingness to help other Legal Writing educators improve their teaching skills or their Legal Writing Programs; and
- an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating Legal Writing educators and students.
Submission Instructions, Information, and Deadline
- Nomination materials should support as fully as possible the listed criteria as well as any other information the nominating person believes would help the Committee in its selection process.
- Nominations are welcome for previously nominated candidates; however, the nomination and its supporting materials should be re-submitted as the Committee does not retain previously submitted materials.
- The deadline for submitting nominations is close of business (5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time) on Friday, July 8, 2011.
- Nominations are confidential. Send nominations directly to the attention of Coleen Barger, Chair of the Committee, using one of the methods listed below.
E-mail: cmbarger@ualr.edu
Fax: (501) 324-9992
U.S. mail:
Prof. Coleen Barger
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law
1201 McMath Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72202
Eligibility
Previous winners, members of the Blackwell Award Committee, and current and newly elected members of the LWI and ALWD governing boards are not eligible for this year's award. The names of those persons are listed in the chart below (some listed more than once due to multiple bases for ineligibility).
Former Winners
Richard Neumann (2003)
Pamela Lysaght (2004)
Ralph Brill (2005)
Mary Beth Beazley (2006)
Lou Sirico (2007)
Diana Pratt (2008)
Linda Edwards (2009)
Steve Johansen (2010)
Carol McCrehan Parker (2011)
Blackwell Award Committee
Mary Garvey Algero
Coleen Barger
Mary Beth Beazley
Lisa Blackwell
Kenneth D. Chestek
Linda Edwards
Steve Johansen
Carol McCrehan Parker
Current and Incoming ALWD Officers and Directors
Mary Garvey Algero (President)
Mary Beth Beazley (Immediate Past President)
J. Lyn Entrikin Goering (President-Elect)
Kristin B. Gerdy (Secretary)
Wanda Temm (Treasurer)
Linda Berger
Kirsten Dauphinais
Kirsten Davis
John Mollenkamp
Anthony Niedwiecki
Terry Jean Seligmann
Susan Thrower
Kathy Vinson
Catherine Wasson
Teresa Godwin Phelps
Ruth Anne Robbins
Current and Incoming LWI Officers and Directors
Kenneth D. Chestek (President)
Ruth Anne Robbins (Immediate Past President)
Melissa H. Weresh (President-Elect)
Rachel Croskery-Roberts (Secretary)
Michael J. Higdon (Treasurer)
Linda Berger (Host School representative)
Robin Boyle
Alison Julien
Lisa McElroy
Tracy L. McGaugh
Laurel Currie Oates
Suzanne Rabe
Joan Malmud Rocklin
David I.C. Thomson
Mark E. Wojcik