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Students Darius Holliday and Chandler Agee awarded by the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation
The Baton Rouge Bar Foundation has awarded its 2021 scholarships to Chandler Agee and Darius Holliday. The scholarships are awarded annually to two 2L or 3L students based on financial need, superior academic achievement, community service, and exemplary character.
Chandler Agee, a May 2021 graduation candidate at Southern University Law Center, is from Kennett, Missouri. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern University Law Review. While a 2L at SULC, he published the article, Oh, the Places You Could Go: Corporate Registration as Consent to General Jurisdiction in Multi-Defendant Litigation, 47 So. U. L. Rev. 257 (2020). Agee serves as member of the Board of Student Advisors at Southern University Law Center and received the CALI Award in Contracts, Family Law, Trial Advocacy, Business Entities, and Legal Writing.
Agee is a graduate of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. While at Lincoln University, Chandler formed and organized Step into Law, a pre-law student organization that was supported by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. The organization’s goal is to provide undergraduate students with the resources and support needed to prepare for law school.
Darius Holliday, a May 2021 graduation candidate at Southern University Law Center, is from Jacksonville, Florida. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Southern University Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty. He served as a research assistant for Professor Alvin Washington and also served as Fellow for the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, a street law clinic that teaches Constitutional law and mock trial strategy to high schoolers in Baton Rouge. He also externed for Magistrate-Judge Erin Wilder-Doomes in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.
Holliday graduated from Florida State University and spent a year as part of Americorps City Year, whereas he provided academic support & mentorship to tenth grade students throughout the school year. He credits that experience with leading him to understand the importance of advocating for education policy, and ensuring each school is provided equitable resources.
