Awards & Winners
John A. Cortner Moot Court Competition Award
The Cortner Award goes each year to the team that wins the final round of the Bass Berry & Sims Moot Court Competition. The award is named for John Cortner, '85, who served as the Vanderbilt Moot Court Board's Chief Justice in 1984-85. John Cortner revitalized the law school's moot court program by assembling a topnotch group of students to participate on the moot court board and professionalizing its daily operations. Through the strength of his personality, he elevated the board's visibility and reputation at Vanderbilt Law School. John was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease shortly after accepting a position with Bogle & Gates in Seattle and died within the year. In 1988, the family of John Cortner established and funded this award in as a memorial to his energetic commitment to the moot court program.
2012 Winners: Adele El-Khouri and Scott Farmer
2012 Finalists: Tracy Hancock and Katherine Matic
Judge Albert C. Hunt National Moot Court Team Award
This annual cash award, which honors the memory of Judge Albert C. Hunt, goes to Vanderbilt Law students chosen as members of the National Moot Court Team. Judge Hunt graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in 1909 and was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma at the time of his death in 1956.
2011 Winners: Anne Gooch, Lauren Gregory, Eric Yetter
Bass Berry & Sims Moot Court Competition Award
Awarded to the semifinalists in the Intramural Moot Court Competition.
2012 Semi-Finalists: Anthony Garcia, Melissa Hurter, Kathleen Meyers, and Ben McMichael
Richard Nagareda Best Oralist
The Richard Nagareda Best Oralist is chosen based on the highest oral argument scores from the preliminary rounds of competition. The award was re-named in 2011 in honor and memory of Professor Richard Nagareda.
2012 Winner: Johnna Herron
Best Brief
The Best Brief is chosen by a committee of Moot Court Board members headed by the Chief Justice of the Board.
2012 Winners: Remington Lenton-Young and Casey Leigh Miller
K. Harlan Dodson Moot Court Staff Award
An award to the senior member of the Moot Court staff, other than the Chief Justice, who rendered the most outstanding service during the year in all aspects of the Moot Court program.
2011 Winner: Kevin Lumpkin