Scholarships

NCAWA SCHOLARSHIPS

NCAWA provides annual scholarships to two deserving women who are students attending the state’s law schools.
This award has been named in honor of retired Chief Justice Sarah Parker of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Submissions for NCAWA's 2025 Sarah Parker Scholarship Award are now open.

The deadline to submit is August 1, 2025.

In support of these scholarships, we ask you to consider donating directly to the fund.
Full instructions on how to donate can be found HERE.

For more information about this scholarship, please contact admin@ncawa.org.

We encourage you to learn more about the deserving women that this scholarship fund has supported by reading below.

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NCAWA SARAH PARKER SCHOLARSHIP

NCAWA provides scholarships to deserving women students attending the state’s law schools. This award has been named in honor of retired Chief Justice Sarah Parker of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

In past years, NCAWA offered the Sarah Parker Scholarship Awards to a deserving female student at each law school in North Carolina. In the academic year 2018-2019, NCAWA began offering two (2) Sarah Parker Scholarship Awards, each in the amount of $2,000, to two women students from North Carolina’s law schools. Scholarship recipients are leaders and/or active in their law schools and communities. Scholarship recipients are students who best exemplify, in their approach to the study and future practice of law, the incorporation of NCAWA’s goals of assuring the effective participation of women in the justice system and in public office, promoting the rights of women under the law and promoting and improving the administration of justice.

Prospective scholarship recipients must be law school students who are continuing their education through the fall semester of the current calendar year and cannot be graduating third-year law students.

2024 Sarah Parker Scholarship Award Winners

Sheridan King (NCCU Law)

Sheridan served as the Co-Founder of the Pre-Law BLSA Chapter at Mercer University. Her law school leadership experience included serving as 1L rep for SBA, 2L Class President, 1L Rep for BLSA, BLSA Vice President, and BLSA President, Social Media Coordinator for If/When/How (a reproductive justice organization), and an active member of her law school's trial team. She created "W.O.M.E.N." (Women of Minorities Empowering the Neighborhood) to empower, mentor, and educate young minority women in Georgia. She desires to be a DA.

Andrea Renegar (Campbell Law)

Andrea serves as President (formerly VP and Event Coordinator) of Women in Law. She is in the top 14% of her class. She is the teaching assistant for Legal Writing and Research. She is also involved in the following groups: Immigrant Rights and Law Students Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. She has an interest in family law.

Previous Sarah Parker Scholarship Recipients:

2023: Juliana Bird, Emily Ann Kocher
2022: Gabrielle Mangru Delgado, Lexus Real
2021: Dorothy Chen, Margaret Hay
2020: Mireya Colin, Henna J. Shah
2019: Erica Bluford, Jacqueline Canzoneri
2018: Lauren Franklin, Niti Parthasarathy