Law Scholarships

Nana Pao Minority Scholarship Fund

At least once a year, I figuratively “go home” to Lewis & Clark. Just as my biological and by-marriage families provided priceless support and whatever dollars they could during my law school days, I send a very modest contribution to Lewis & Clark’s minority scholarship fund. I think of law students like Delores Leone ‘94 when I write the check. The law school’s Minority Law Students Association connected us in a mentoring relationship in my last and her first year of school. She was like a younger sister then and she has developed into a successful attorney with a happy family in Chicago. In the midst of law school life, Delores provided some of the many feelings of “belonging” that helped me find a place at Lewis & Clark. I send my few dollars during the annual fund-raising drive and think that perhaps, in some form, it will buy a tax casebook for another Delores. –Stella Manabe ‘92

The Nana Pao Minority Scholarship Fund was established in 2002 in recognition of Nana Pao who passed away in 2002, in her last year of law school. The scholarship is combined with the school’s existing scholarship fund and is intended for minority students.