Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution
Center Hosts Collaboration for Graduates
Awards First Summers-Wyatt Trial Advocacy Scholarship
The Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution hosted its annual Year-End Collaboration for students graduating in the Advocacy Concentration on April 1. In addition to honoring the graduates and the adjunct faculty, the Center awarded the first Summers-Wyatt Trial Advocacy Scholarship. The scholarship, created by the Chattanooga law firm of Summers and Wyatt, was awarded to Anna Gracey, from Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. Jerry Summers, Center Founder and partner at Summers and Wyatt, was on hand to award the scholarship.
Anna is a rising third-year law student who plans to serve as a public defender after finishing law school. She is a graduate of Lee College and of Soddy Daisy High School. At Lee she worked with the Mock Trial program. But Anna's first law-related experience came much earlier in life when, at the age of nine, she was interviewed by a trial judge in chambers. She says that "ever since then, I knew I wanted to come to law school."
Anna first met Jerry Summers at the Collaboration. "Meeting Mr. Summers was a wonderful experience," she said. "He is an awe-inspiring man who is consistently contributing to the lives of those around him. I am extremely honored to be the first recipient of the Summers-Wyatt Scholarship. To receive such a generous scholarship to fulfill my dreams is something I never thought possible." She says that the funds from the scholarship which will fund her last year of law school will help her meet her ultimate goal of working for the public defender after graduation.
Founder Jerry Summers awards Anna Gracey the first Summers-Wyatt Trial Advocacy Scholarship.