Scholarships

NCAWA SCHOLARSHIPS

NCAWA provides annual scholarships to 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 2026 Sarah Parker Scholarship Award are now open.

The deadline to submit is September 18, 2026.

In support of these scholarships, we ask you to consider donating directly to the fund.
Donate online below.

Full instructions on how to donate by check 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 attending law school in North Carolina. In the academic year 2018-2019, NCAWA began offering Sarah Parker Scholarship Awards, in the amount of $2,000, to 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. Rising second-year and rising third-year students only please.

2025 Sarah Parker Scholarship Award Winners

Apply for the Sarah Parker Scholarship Here

Katelyn Gallimore (Campbell Law)

Katelyn Gallimore has built an extensive background in service, leadership, and academic excellence throughout her education. Beginning in her undergraduate years, she served as Vice President of both the Pre-Law and Women's Lacrosse Clubs, worked as an SGA Senator, and organized service projects for organizations like the YMCA and local community initiatives. At Campbell Law School, she expanded her advocacy as a certified student intern with the Blanchard Community Law Clinic—lobbying for policy change at the General Assembly and restoring driver's licenses—and volunteered with the Wills/AD project to draft legal documents for first responders. Her academic record includes serving as Associate Editor and incoming Senior Comments Editor for the Campbell Law Review (Volume 48), researching juvenile justice policy, and working as a Teaching Scholar for Criminal Procedure and Business Organizations. Additionally, Katelyn has actively championed women in the legal field through her roles as 1L Peer Mentor, Event Coordinator, and President of Women in Law.

Keri Edwards (NCCU School of Law)

Keri Edwards has a strong history of public service and community engagement, spanning long-term volunteer work with Regency Nursing Home, tutoring young students through Reading Partners in Baltimore, and assisting North Carolina first responders with estate planning documents through the Wills for Heroes clinic. As an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she has further demonstrated her dedication to service and women's rights by participating in national initiatives like Delta Days in the Nation's Capital and contributing to preparations for the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Driven by a mission to expand opportunities for Black women in the legal field, Keri aspires to practice health law, aiming to serve as general counsel for a hospital, advocate for equitable healthcare access in marginalized communities, and promote vital legal medical planning.

Previous Sarah Parker Scholarship Recipients:

2024: Sheridan King, Andrea Renegar
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