Jennifer Ruby, member of the class of 2010 at Elon Law, was awarded the Wake County Bar Association (WCBA) Memorial Scholarship on June 9, with an award amount of $4,000.
The Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to deserving law students with ties to Wake County who have shown academic merit and a commitment to community service. Funded by donations given in memory of deceased WCBA members, more than $75,000 in scholarships has been awarded since its inception in 1989.
Jennifer Ruby is currently a third-year student at Elon University School of Law. She graduated cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. Ruby is the outgoing President of the Elon Law Innocence Project, which reviews and investigates innocence claims made by prisoners incarcerated in North Carolina. She is currently the Articles Editor of the Elon Law Review and a member of the Elon Law Moot Court board.
Ruby is spending her summer before her third year of law school clerking with the law firms of Forman, Rossabi, and Black, and Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak, and Stewart, P.C.
Ruby and two other scholarship recipients were presented their awards at the June WCBA meeting in Raleigh, NC.
– Tiffany N. Dyson, L’11