Duke Law Post-Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Amanda McRae '09: Amanda received the Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship, a one-year fellowship with Human Rights Watch in its New York, D.C., or London office. This fellowship is open to graduates (at the Master's level) in the fields of law, journalism, international relations, or other relevant studies, and fellows work on a country- or topic-specific international human rights project during their year to expand the work of Human Rights Watch.
Emilia Beskind '08 is in the Prettyman Fellowship program. This Georgetown Law fellowship provides about $150,000 in tuition, fees and stipends over two years as the fellow works toward her LLM in Advocacy. It is considered the most prestigious fellowship in the country for anyone who intends to practice criminal law or be involved in criminal justice clinical education. Emilia will study and practice criminal law in the D.C. courts the first year. The second year she reduces her caseload and also supervises Georgetown Law students in their criminal clinics. (We are informed that Duke Law had at least one previous Prettyman Fellow, Tom Meehan '65.)
See generally the Georgetown Law Clinical Graduate Fellowships and the Prettyman Fellowship.
Leah Nicholls '07: Leah is the 2008-2009 recipient of the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellowship with the Public Citizen Litigation Group in D.C. Her job is to find and screen Supreme Court cert petitions to see whether Public Citizen would be interested in working on them, and then be the contact person/public face of the organization in any resulting assistance. She also works on briefs, research, and preparation for oral arguments. The Litigation Group's attorneys specialize in cases involving health and safety regulation, consumer rights, access to the courts, class actions, open government, and the First Amendment, including Internet free speech. Its attorneys litigate cases at all levels of the federal and state judiciaries and have argued over 50 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. Before the fellowship, Leah clerked for a federal judge in Texas.
See the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellowship Program.
Kisha Payton '05: Kisha received the first fellowship offered by the Duke Endowment, which is based in Charlotte, and now works with Citizens Schools in Boston, MA.
See the Duke Endowment Fellowship Program.
Sebastian Kielmanovich '04: Sebastian received an Everett Fellowship to work with a designated legal aid office in North Carolina. Two are awarded each year. His was to do domestic violence work in Wilmington, NC. Since then, he has been an Assistant District Attorney in Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C., and is now in the North Carolina DOJ.
See the Everett Fellowship Program.
Emily Marroquin '04: Emily received fellowship offers from both Equal Justice Works and Fair Trial Initiative. In spring 2006, she finished up her two-year fellowship with the Fair Trial Initiative in Durham, N.C. and is now working for the Federal Defender's Office in Charlotte, N.C.
See the Fair Trial Initiative Fellowship Program. (The Fair Trial Initiative Fellowship was created by Duke Law graduate Zepher Teachout '99.)
Dimitri Varmazis '04: Dimitri received an Everett Fellowship to work with Legal Aid of North Carolina - Charlotte and continues to work there.
See the Everett Fellowship Program.
Kim Bart '02: After a couple of years in private practice, Kim became a Federal Legislation Clinic Teaching Fellow at the Georgetown Law Center. She finished her fellowship in spring 2006 and was awarded an LLM. During the fellowship she received a salary, taught law students how to lobby, and worked on national legislation for Catholic Social Charities. After completion of the program, Kim led the domestic violence clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law.
See generally the Georgetown Law Clinical Graduate Fellowships and the Federal Legislation Clinic.
Jennifer Mellon '02: Jennifer completed a two-year fellowship with Fair Trial Initiative.
See the Fair Trial Initiative Fellowship Program.
Rodney Bullard '01 was a White House Fellow and now works at the Pentagon as an Air Force Legislative Liaison to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. He is an active duty Major in the United States Air Force. Rodney has served as a special prosecutor with the Air Force Legal Services Agency.
See the White House Fellows Program.
Maya Horton Harris '99: Maya received an Equal Justice Works (then known as NAPIL) Fellowship to work on equal financing for public schools in New Jersey. After the two-year fellowship, she continued her fellowship project theme with two jobs focusing on public school financing. She now works for the Council on Foundations in DC. She has experience screening applications for Equal Justice Works.
See the Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program.
Emily Friedman '98: Emily received a Skadden Fellowship to do legal aid work relating to day care and welfare-to-work in Chicago. She now works for Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Foundation.
See the Skadden Fellowship Program.
Elizabeth Catlin '94: Elizabeth received a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship in DC and now runs her own wealth management business. At Duke Law, she founded the Domestic Violence Assistance Project (DVAP, and now called DVSAAP) and was one of the founders of the Gender Journal.
