Reinventing Howard's Law School - Alice Gresham Bullock, Dean

Black Issues in Higher Education, April 12, 2001 by Gwendolyn Glenn

* Average LSAT scores of a Howard law student is 152 (out a possible score of 180). The national average LSAT scores range between 150-155.

* 21 percent of the class of 1999 received judicial clerkships.

* The overall employment rate of Howard's 1999 graduates was 96 percent.

* President Clinton appointed seven Howard law graduates to federal judgeships.

* According to the 2000 U.S. News & World Report, Howard was among the top 25 law schools whose graduates report the highest median starting salary.

* In its first year of participation (2000), Howard's Huver I. Brown Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team became the first historically Black law school to win the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Tournament of the Champions Trial Advocacy Moot Court Competition.

Notable Alumni of HUSL

Vernon Jordan, ('60), senior managing director, Lazard Freres and Co., presidential adviser to Bill Clinton

Gabrielle MacDonald, ('66), former federal judge and presiding judge of the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal of the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands

Thurgood Marshall, ('33), first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Hon. Sharon Pratt Kelly, ('68), first female mayor of the District of Columbia

U.S. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, ('78) D-N.Y.

Charlotte E. Ray, (1872) first African American woman to practice law in the District of Columbia

Hon. Douglas Wilder, ('59), first African American governor of Virginia