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University of Hawai'i |
(808) 956-8856 Telephone |
For Immediate Release: |
August 31, 2000 |
Contact: Eileen Broms, Director of Development, Wm. S. Richardson School of Law, 956-6545 broms@hawaii.edu Mirabai Breemer, Public Relations Specialist (Law School) 956-5557
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| UH Law School Graduate Receives Civil Rights Fellowship |
The prestigious Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellowship for 2000-2001 has been awarded to Susan Kiyomi Serrano. This Fellowship is considered to be among the country's top civil rights fellowships for new lawyers.
Ms. Serrano graduated from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i, in 1998, and is a published legal scholar. As a second year law student, she won a national competition for the best racial justice writing, receiving the Trina Grillo Critical Race Theory Award. Ms. Serrano is currently finishing a law clerkship for the Hawai`i Supreme Court with Justice Ramil and former Justice Klein.
This month, Ms. Serrano joins the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. Her work will include litigation, policy and community work in areas of employment, voting, language rights, housing, economic development, coalition politics and education.
