Sarah A. Maguire, a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has been named the recipient of a $10,000 Ford Leadership Award for 2005. The Ford Motor Company created the national award to recognize law students in their second or third year who demonstrate significant leadership skills and make a positive difference for the community.

Criteria used to select the winning students nationwide include originality, independent judgment, self-confidence, commitment to quality, and maintaining inspiration, focus, and persistence, even under adversity.

Sarah Maguire has been recognized for outstanding achievement in her years as a UW law student.  She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review and is founder and chair of the newly launched Wisconsin Law Review Alumni Association.  She is studying for a dual degree of J.D. from the Law School and Master of Public Affairs from the La Follette School of Public Affairs.  She is receiving both degrees in May 2005.

Maguire has won multiple State Bar Awards for highest achievement in her law classes, and has been an award-winning participant in moot court competition. She has been a summer associate with Jenner & Block, a summer intern with the Commercial Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a summer associate with Foley & Lardner.

She earned a B.A. from UW-Madison in Journalism and Political Science with Comprehensive Honors, and wrote her senior honors thesis on Fighting Words and the First Amendment.

Maguire will begin a clerkship with the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit,  in Fall 2005.

Submitted by on April 29, 2005

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