Third-year University of Wisconsin law student Elisabeth Stockbridge has been named the recipient of the 2008 Leonard Loeb Family Law Scholarship. The award recognizes a law student who has shown academic excellence and a strong commitment to the field of family law.

The Loeb Scholarship was created by the family of the late Leonard Loeb, a 1952 graduate of the UW Law School. Loeb served as President of the State Bar of Wisconsin and demonstrated a lifetime commitment to community service and family law.

At the Law School, Elisabeth Stockbridge is President of the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) for 2008-09 and a founding member of the Mental Health Legal Advocacy Network. She has worked with the Unemployment Appeals Clinic, the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, the Children’s Justice Project, and Family Law/Restorative Justice Project.

In summer 2008, Stockbridge was a law clerk at the U.S. Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel in Washington, D.C., and a summer law clerk at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.

The Loeb scholarship award is administered through the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Stockbridge will receive the award officially at a luncheon ceremony held by the Academy of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in Chicago in November.

Submitted by on October 15, 2008

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