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Two Law SULC students receive BR Bar Foundation Scholarships
Southern University Law Center students Korin Jones and DeMario Thornton have each been awarded a scholarship from the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation. This scholarship is awarded annually based on financial need, academic achievement, community service and exemplary character.
Jones and Thornton are both seniors at SULC. Jones currently serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, while Thornton is the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern University Law Review.
Jones, a California native and a graduate of Hampton University. She is involved in many campus activities, including serving as Student Bar Association Treasurer. She has a passion for criminal justice reform, interning at San Quentin Prison, where she taught inmates to read and write, and with the Innocence Project in Atlanta, Ga.
Thornton, a native of Birmingham, Ala., is the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern University Law Review. He is a graduate of Talladega College. He interned with Kean Miller, the East Baton Rouge Office of the Public Defender and Bradley Arant Boult Cumming in Birmingham. After graduation, Thornton will practice construction law with Bradley Arant.
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