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<img width="335" height="297" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/barristersawards1.jpg" alt="barristersawards1"><p class="Caption">Dean Ammons with Sayde Ladov, Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. </p>
<img width="400" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/barristersawards2.jpg" alt="barristersawards2"><p class="Caption">Professor Nathaniel Nichols with his wife. </p>
<img width="400" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/barristersawards3.jpg" alt="barristersawards3"><p class="Caption">Charles Gibbs, Dean Ammons, State Representative Tony Payton, and Judge Jacqui Frazier-Lyde. </p>
<img width="400" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/barristersawards4.jpg" alt="barristersawards4"><p class="Caption">Widener Law Graduates Gabriela Arce de Smith, Nicolas Lombo, and Antonia M. Pfeffer. </p>
</div>On Saturday, April 25th, the Barrister’s Association of Philadelphia presented Widener Law 4th year Extended Division student Charles Gibbs with a scholarship at the Annual Awards and Scholarship Gala held at the Ballroom at the Ben Franklin House. Gibbs and four other students attending area law schools were awarded scholarships.<br><br>The Honorable Lydia Y. Kirkland won the A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Award, and during her acceptance, she acknowledged Widener Law Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Programs <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/NicholsNathanielC.aspx">Nathaniel C. Nichols</a> as her first employer.<br><br>Dean <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/AmmonsLinda.aspx">Linda L. Ammons</a>, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/WilliamsSerenaM.aspx">Serena M. Williams</a>, and Associate Professor of Law <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/TurezynKathleenMarie.aspx">Kathleen M. Turezyn</a> were also in attendance.