HONORING PIPELINE LEADERSHIP

The American Bar Association
Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline

The Fifth Annual
Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Award

Call for Nominations

Dear Colleague:

The ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline is accepting nominations for the Fifth Annual Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Award for Excellence in Pipeline Diversity. To increase diversity in the legal profession demands work all along the educational pipeline to expand persistence and success of underrepresented students. The purpose of the Alexander Award is to recognize exemplary leadership in pipeline work by an individual or organization. The award will honor those demonstrating success working along the educational pipeline in a collaborative approach involving more than one segment of the continuum from preschool to high school to college to law school to the practice. The deadline for nominations is Monday, October 15, 2012.

For more information, including the nomination form and instructions, please visit:

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/diversity_pipeline/projects_initiatives/alexander_award.html

The Award will be presented at the ABA Midyear Meeting on Friday, February 8, 2013.

ABOUT THE AWARD
To increase diversity in the legal profession demands work all along the educational pipeline to expand persistence and success of underrepresented students. The ABA Alexander Award recognizes exemplary leadership in pipeline work by an individual or organization. The award proudly honors those demonstrating success working along the educational pipeline in a collaborative approach involving more than one segment of the continuum from elementary to high school to college to law school to the practice.

Raymond Pace Alexander was Wharton's first African American graduate, president of the National Bar Association in 1929 and again from 1933 to 1935, and was the first black judge on the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia. In the early 1930s, he took two Chester County school districts to court after they tried to establish racially segregated school systems. His victory in that case marked an end to de jure segregation in Pennsylvania schools.

Raymond's wife, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

The American Bar Association Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/diversity_pipeline/projects_initiatives/alexander_award.html

The Award will be presented at the ABA Midyear Meeting on Friday, February 8, 2013.

Raymond's wife, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

The American Bar Association
Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline