Joyce Ann Harpole Awards

About the Harpole Lecture and Awards

Joyce Ann Harpole J.D. ’79 exemplified professionalism with her delight for life and her ability to balance career, family, and community responsibilities. She passed away in 1994 at the age of 42.

Each year, her life is celebrated with the Joyce Ann Harpole Lecture and Awards. The event features a guest speaker and the presentations of the Harpole Attorney Award and the Harpole Memorial Legacy Scholarship.

The Harpole Award recognizes a lawyer who is dedicated to the pursuit of justice while maintaining a sense of balance among career, family, and community. The Harpole Scholarship is awarded to a current law school student who demonstrates those qualities and a dedication to his or her legal studies. Both the award and scholarship recipients are nominated by their peers.

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Joyce Ann Harpole Attorney Award

Nominations Sought for the Joyce Ann Harpole Attorney Award

In celebration of the life of Joyce Harpole, The Harpole Attorney Award recognizes lawyers who work quietly in pursuit of justice while maintaining a sense of balance between their legal career and their personal life that distinguishes them within the legal community. . The Harpole Attorney Award recipient will be recognized at a reception on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at the Oregon Historical Society.

You are invited to nominate a colleague who reflects those traits by meeting the following criteria:

1. Delight for life, with a clearly lived balance between career, family, and community

2. Well-prepared, vigorous advocacy, with a commitment to fairness and just results

3. Positive community involvement

4. Diligence in all aspects of life

5. Overall personal and professional integrity

6. Membership in the Oregon State Bar

To nominate a deserving individual, please provide the following information:

1. Colleague’s name;

2. Detailed description as to how the individual fits the criteria listed above; and,

3. At least two additional references that the Selection Committee may contact for further information on the nominee. Please include a phone number for each reference. Remember, this is about the nominee’s balance with life, as well as other achievements.

Please write this nomination thoughtfully and thoroughly, because it is a critical step in the selection process. Poorly written nominations will not pass the first screening.

Questions and/or complete nominations may be submitted to Robin Jerke, at the Law School’s address below; by fax to (503) 768-6671; or by e-mail to lawalum@lclark.edu.

NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE END OF THE DAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008.