Alexander Award History and Application Process
The Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline accepts nominations every Fall for the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Award for Excellence in Pipeline Diversity. The Award will be presented in February 2021 during the ABA Midyear Meeting.
Purpose of the Award
To increase diversity in the legal profession demands work to expand opportunities for and success of underrepresented students including ethnic minorities, students with disabilities, and students who identify with LGBTQ, all along the educational pipeline through law school and into the profession. The Alexander Award was created to honor an individual or organization that has demonstrated exemplary leadership and success in educational pipeline work.
The award is named after the life and legacy of two legal trailblazers – Raymond Pace Alexander and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. Raymond was the first African American to graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and become a judge on the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia. In the early 1930s, Raymond took two Chester County school districts to court that ended de jure segregation in Pennsylvania schools. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Raymond’s wife, was the first African American women to receive a Ph.D. in the United States and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Criteria
The organization or individual nominated has led or created a successful program to advance opportunities for underrepresented students throughout the educational pipeline and into the legal profession.
Nomination Application Information and Requirements
The Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline is not accepting nominations at this time. Please direct any specific questions to Selina Thomas at selina.thomas@americanbar.org.
Application requirements include:
- Completed nomination form
- Narrative description that contains:
- Details about the nominees's pipeline program, including pipeline segments represented, program longevity, outcomes and measures, and number of students served.
- Details on how the pipeline program has significantly changed the landscape of pipeline diversity and assisted others in similar efforts.
- Two (2) letters in support of the nominee
