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Four FAMU Law Students Receive William Holland Program Bar Prep Scholarships
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb 23, 2022
The following students received scholarships:
Edward Lavant, Lindjee Noziere, Richard Ryles, Jr & Suwana Janvier received the William Holland Scholarship.
Suwana Janvier received the Shannoya C. Robinson Memorial Scholarship.
The F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association hosted the 21st Annual Holland Bar Prep Scholarship Program. The awards were announced during a virtual ceremony on Friday, February 18, 2022. The scholarships are for well-deserving African American law students scheduled to take the bar exam in July 2022. The scholarships offset the bar examination preparation expenses for students who demonstrate a commitment to excellence.
“I admire the mission of the F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. Bar Association which is to promote the personal and professional development of Blacks within the legal profession and to promote improvement in the law and in the method of its administration,” said Lindjee Noziere, scholarship recipient. “I am humbled, grateful and honored to be one of the recipients of this award.”
Suwana Janvier received the Shannoya C. Robinson Scholarship for overcoming adversity. The third-year student from Lake City is the mother of three, the President of the Student Bar Association and is actively involved in multiple activities. “I am pleased and honored to be a recipient of this scholarship and appreciate the Cunningham Bar Association’s forethought to consider the path of becoming a practicing attorney and reaching back to help bring others along,” said Janvier.
This annual signature event is named after the first African-American attorney in Palm Beach County and civil rights pioneer, William H. Holland. Holland applied to the University of Florida Law School and was denied admission because of his race. Holland applied and was accepted into Boston College of Law where he met Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. As a young law student, Holland worked under the direction of Thurgood Marshall. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1950.
For more information about the FAMU College of Law, please visit law.famu.edu.