RELEASE- Morgan’s General Counsel Receives Law Student Award

Morgan State University’s General Counsel, Julie D. Goodwin, has been selected as this year’s Practitioner of the Year by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) of the University of Maryland School of Law.

“We are pleased to have Ms. Goodwin as this year’s recipient of the Practitioner of the Year Award. Her legal career has set the standard for excellence in the practice of law,” said the BLSA’s Nancy Oyedele, Parliamentarian of the University of Maryland chapter.

Goodwin is a native of Maryland and has served as General Counsel at Morgan State University since 1992. Prior to assuming her role at Morgan, she was University Counsel and Director of Residency Classification Appeals at the University of Maryland at College Park. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law.

The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) was founded in 1967. The national organization has chapters at virtually every law school in the country. The University of Maryland chapter, one of the first and one of the largest in the nation, is active in recruiting and assisting black and other minority law students with their studies while in law school and preparing them for the bar and, ultimately, the practice of law.

Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a doctoral research institution offering more than 60 academic programs leading to bachelor’s degrees as well as programs at the master’s and doctoral levels. As Maryland’s public urban university, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors for higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information on Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu

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