Graduate Aid
College of Law | Aid by Category
Contact: Carol Huber, 164 Holland Law Center; chuber@ufl.edu, www.law.ufl.edu
UF Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships
The following endowed scholarships and fellowships are administered by the UF Foundation. For information, check with the departmental contact person or the Foundation Web site.
- Judge Hal W. & Bessie Organ Adams Scholarship
Eligibility: first-year students who are permanent residents of Lafayette, Suwannee, Dixie, Taylor, Madison, Hamilton or Columbia Counties; must be in top 15% of his/her undergraduate class; must score in top 15% nationally on LSAT.
Value: varies - Airth, Clayton, Warren, and Sisler Scholarship Fund>
Eligibility: entering student; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; requires a 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Akerman Senterfitt Scholarship
Eligibility: merit award to entering student.
Value: $1,000 - American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Florida Chapter, Tuition Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: merit award to entering student; requires a 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 award - Lewis "Lukie" Ansbacher Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: law students who have completed at least three semesters and earned at least 40 credit hours, have completed at least two courses in real property or a related subject area, and evidence an interest in practicing in the field of real property law.
Value: varies - Ralph R. Bailey Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: incoming law students who have been residents of Broward County for one year before applying; academic standing, sound character, integrity, and achievement in undergraduate extracurricular activities; requires a 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Robert S. Baynard Scholarship
Eligibility: entering student; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years: required 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Guy W. Botts Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Ernest B. and Estelle Pierce Bowles Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: women students in the college.
Value: varies - Gertrude Brick Law Review Apprentice Prize Fund
Eligibility: outstanding editors on the Florida Law Review Board; awardees are voted on by the board each semester.
Value: varies - Broad and Cassel Florida Law Review Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: senior editors of the Florida Law Review.
Value: summer stipends; varies - Frank E. Bryant, Jr., Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering law school students, preferably Florida residents; academic achievement and financial need; requires a 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 a year - Dewey & Lynn Burnsed Endowment
Eligibility: merit award to entering student.
Value: varies - Judge George C. Carr Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Cokers, Myers, Schickel, Cooper, & Sorenson P.A. Scholarship
Eligibility: students participating in trial competition team at UF; based on merit.
Value: $350-$850, eight awards - Clifford W. Crandall Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: law students with financial need who have completed at least two, but not more than three semesters in this college; requires 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to apply and a 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $1,500 - Cuban American Bar Merit Scholarship
Eligibility: continuing Cuban American law student or any continuing law student who has distinguished himself through outstanding academic achievement and through significant scholarship on the subject of human rights violations in Cuba or the reestablishment of a democratic rule of law in Cuba.
Value: varies - Cypen and Cypen Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: students must have completed at least two semesters of study in this college; requires a 3.2 law school GPA.
Value: $1,000 - Irving Cypen Freshman Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: student who earns the highest GPA during the first year of law school.
Value: $3,500, $2,500, $2,000 - Darrey A. Davis Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: students who have completed one year of law school at UF with demonstrated interest in public service and commitment to highest ethical standards of the profession; law GPA in top 25 percent.
Value: $6,000 with renewal if eligible and offer of interview for summer clerkship - Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano, and Bozarth P. A. Endowed Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: tax students; consideration of financial need; law students, with first consideration to those in JD or LLM programs.
Value: up to $7,500 - John W. Donahoo Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; financial need; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Dorini Family Graduate Tax Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: meritorious tax students.
Value: up to $7,500 - Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc., Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; must have 3.2-4.0 law school GPA.
Value: $4,000 - Atwood Dunwody Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: second-year law students with good academic standing and financial need; 3.2 law school GPA needed to apply.
Value: $1,000 - Chester Ferguson Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding entering students; merit and need.
Value: $1,000 awards - Carlton Fields Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Florida Worker's Compensation Institute, Inc., Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school to renew.
Value: $2,000 per year - Michael M. Fogarty Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; merit and need; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $3,000 - James J. Freeland Graduate Tax Scholarship
Eligibility: outstanding seniors; based on academic achievement and leadership.
Value: varies - Harry F. Goodmark Scholarship
Eligibility: students entering third year of law school with demonstrated interest in representing workers in workers' compensation proceedings, labor law, or employment law on behalf of low-income workers; financial need; 3.2 law school GPA to apply.
Value: $1,500 - GrayRobinson, P.A. ,Endowed Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Evelyn Hartman Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Judge William T. Hodges Tuition Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students who demonstrate academic merit; financial need; three-year scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Holland and Knight LLP Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; priority to Florida residents; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen, & Ginsburg P. A. Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering law students; based on merit and financial need; preference to Sarasota County residents.
Value: $4,000 - Jacksonville Law Alumni Tuition Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering law students; merit and financial need; preference to Jacksonville area resident; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - William A. Jacob Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; merit and financial need; preference given to students over the age of 30.
Value: varies - Joseph R. Julin Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: entering student; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; merit and need; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew; consideration to students who show commitment to making meaningful contributions to a pluralistic community and the continuation of a diverse student body, and sensitivity to and understanding of racial and ethnic issues.
Value: varies - Judge Ben Krentzman Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering UF law students; based on merit.
Value: varies - Lane, Trohn, Clarke, Bertrand, & Williams Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students, preferably from Polk County; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew; also based on LSAT.
Value: $4,000; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years - William F. and Elizabeth R. Leonard Tuition Scholarship
Eligibility: three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; entering students with academic merit; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - James W. Locke Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; preference to males; based on need and merit.
Value: $1,000 - Lake Lytal, Jr. Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; merit and financial need; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew; consideration to applicants with commitment to meaningful contributions to a pluralistic community and continuation of a diverse student body; sensitivity to and understanding of racial and ethnic issues in society; commitment to learning to better communicate across the social lines of gender race, generation, geography, and class; ability to overcome educational, social or family disadvantages; leadership potential.
Value: varies - W. D. Macdonald Prize Fund
Eligibility: graduating senior from summer, fall or spring semesters with the highest cumulative law school average.
Value: $3,000 - MacFarlane, Ausley, Ferguson, and McCullen Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students, based on merit and financial need; three-year scholarship awarded every three years; need a 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Phillip J. MacLennan Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: fall entrants with academic achievement; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA needed to renew.
Value: $4,000; three years - Frank Maloney Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding first-year students entering in fall; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 per year - Esther Guthery Mautz and Robert Barbeau Mautz Law Review Scholarship
Eligibility: editors in chief of Florida Law Review.
Value: varies - Richard E. and Patricia M. McGee Scholarship
Eligibility: merit scholarship for entering students; 3.2-4.0 to renew.
Value: $4,000 per year; three-year scholarship awarded every three years - Judge John McNatt Scholarship
Eligibility: outstanding second- or third-year students; financial need; 3.0 law GPA, graduated from a college in southeastern U.S.
Value: $2,000 - Robert E. “Jeff" McNeill Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: spring entrants from Florida; based on merit (GPA, LSAT scores).
Value: $2,000 - Nestor and Virginia Morales Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - John C. Pinkerton Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000; three-year scholarship awarded every three years - Terrye Coggin Proctor Merit Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering law students who demonstrate merit and need; LSAT considered; maintain a 3.2 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $5,000 - Terrye Coggin Proctor Scholarship Fund (Tuition )
Eligibility: entering law students demonstrating merit and need; maintain a 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Frank and Louise Reed Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; merit scholarship; three-year scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA to renew; 3.0 GPA for the semester prior to application.
Value: $4,000 - Justice Richard W. Ervin Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: graduating seniors with a minimum 3.2 law school GPA; financial need.
Value: $1,000, fall award - Justus Reid Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Mark A. Rentenbach Graduate Tax Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; merit and need; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school to renew.
Value: $1,000 per year - Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh
Mirabito & Christensen Scholarship in Honor of Robert L. Floyd Eligibility: entering students based on merit and need; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA needed to renew.
Value: $3,000 - Walter "Bud" Robison, III, Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: outstanding second- or third-year students with financial need; 3.2 law GPA.
Value: $2,500, fall award - Douglas Edwin Salisbury Scholarship
Eligibility: Blanche Salisbury, longtime friend of UF, established this endowment to assist law students in loving memory of her husband, Douglas Edwin Salisbury.
Value: varies - W. Paul and Erin C. Shelley Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students with merit (includes LSAT scores); 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew; three-year merit scholarship awarded every three years.
Value: $4,000 - Shutts & Bowen Meyers-Wolfe Memorial Tuition Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering law students; exemplary character and scholarship.32-4.0 law school GPA needed to renew.
Value: $4,000 - Benedict A. Silverman Scholarship
Eligibility: meritorious law students who demonstrate financial need; selection based on recommendations made to dean by the awards committee. Value: $3,000 - I. C. Spoto Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: second-year law students with good academic standing and financial need; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to apply.
Value: $1,250 - Richard B. Stephens Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding tax students. Value: $1,000 per year - Sherwood L. Stokes-General Practitioner Scholarship
Eligibility: law students (not graduate students); based on merit.
Value: varies - Sherwood L. Stokes-Professor Clarence J. TeSelle Scholarships
Eligibility: meritorious law students.
Value: varies - Sherwood L. Stokes-Professor James W. Day Scholarship
Eligibility: meritorious law students.
Value: varies - John W. Thatcher Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: tax students.
Value: up to $7,500 - UF Law School Faculty Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering J.D. students based on GPA, LSAT, and financial need..
Value: $4,000 - Ronnie W. Walker Scholarships
Eligibility: top eight trial team finalists.
Value: $350-$850, sixteen awards - Judge James Bryan Whitfield Constitutional Law Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: graduating law students; high proficiency and interest in constitutional law. Value: $2,000 - Hervey and Patricia Yancey Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: entering students; merit; maintain a 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $2,500 - Evan J. Yegelwel Fellowship
Eligibility: students with legal internships in non-profit organizations, especially prevention of hate crime; preference to interns with Anti-Defamation League; must make presentation with the UF Center for Study of Race and Race Relations.
Value: varies - Zimmerman, Shuffield, Kiser, & Sutcliffe, PA, Fall Moot Court Competition Fund
Eligibility: moot court competition winners.
Value: $500, four awards
Non-Endowed Scholarships
- Dan Bradley Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; merit and financial need; offered by the Florida Lawyers Legal Insurance Corporation.
Value: $2,000 - Brian T. Degnan Annual Business Law Achievement Award
Eligibility: awarded annually to a UF Law student demonstrating outstanding achievement in the field of Business Law at the UF Fredric G. Levin College of Law.
Value: $500 - Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan, & Berlin, P.L. Tuition Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; merit.
Value: $5,850 - G. L. Patten, Sr./G. L. Patten, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: law students who are interested in public service careers.
Value: varies - Richman, Greer, Weil, Brumbaugh, Mirabito, & Christensen Scholarship Fund in Honor of Robert L. Floyd
Eligibility: incoming students; based on merit and recommendation of the dean and committee; renewable with committee-approved GPA.
Value: varies - Johnson S. Savary Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; three year merit scholarship; 3.2-4.0 GPA in law school needed to renew.
Value: $2,000 - Johnson S. Savary Scholarship for Continuing Students
Eligibility: outstanding second or third-year students with financial need; 3.2 law GPA.
Value: $1,000 - Clifford A. & Michele W. Schulman Tuition Scholarship
Eligibility: entering students; merit and financial need; 3.2-4.0 law school GPA to renew.
Value: $2,500
UF Endowed Loans
The following endowed loan fund is administered by the UF Foundation. For information, check with the departmental contact person or the Foundation Web site.
- Eldridge Hart Loan Fund
Eligibility: law students.
Value: varies
Loans
- Karl B. Block, Jr., Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: entering freshmen residents of Dade County; undergraduate GPA of at least 3.2; score of or average of 36 on the LSAT; community service activities are stressed.
Value: varies - Ralph Blowers Memorial Loan Fund
Short-term loans.
Eligibility: law students; financial need.
Value: $250 limit - Brevard County Bar Association Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: Brevard county residents who have completed two semesters of law school.
Value: $1,000 per year; must be repaid in five years, starting one year after graduation - Clearwater Bar Association Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: third-year law students who live in the Clearwater/Largo area have priority; based on financial need and academic standing.
Value: varies - Martha B. Culpepper Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: students who have completed one semester of law school.
Value: varies - Florida Bar Foundation, Glenn Terrell Scholarship Fund
Administered by the Florida Bar Foundation; applications available from College of Law.
Eligibility: law students who have completed two semesters.
Value: $3,000 - Harriet-Horner Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: priority to second- and third-year students.
Value: varies - Leroy Franklin Lewis Memorial Fund
Eligibility: law students needing temporary, emergency financial assistance related to educational expenses; minimum 2.0 GPA; registered at least 12 credit hours; preference to second- and third-year students.
Value: varies - Leroy Franklin Lewis Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: second- and third-year law students have priority; 2.0 law GPA required.
Value: varies - Miami Beach Bar Association Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: residents of Dade County who have completed two semesters of law school in good academic standing.
Value: $500 - Michael C. Murphy Loan Fund
Ninety day loans.
Eligibility: preference to law students with home addresses in 3rd Judicial Circuit.
Value: $250 limit; no interest if paid on time - Phi Alpha Delta Loans
Short-term loans for law students.
Eligibility: student fraternity members.
Value: $1,500 limit; no interest - Phi Delta Phi Loan Fund
Eligibility: members of local chapter.
Value: $500 limit - Robinson Reese Saunders Loan Fund
Eligibility: entering freshmen with a 3.2 GPA and an average of 36 on the LSAT; based on need and promise of success in law school; renewable with 2.8 GPA.
Value: varies - Senior Law Loan Fund Short-term loans.
Eligibility: law school seniors.
Value: varies - Dean Slagle Memorial Fund
Eligibility: needy law students in good standing; priority to third-year students.
Value: varies - C. J. TeSelle Memorial Loan Fund
Eligibility: third-year students have priority; based on need and academic standing.
Value: varies - University Club of Orlando Loan Fund
Eligibility: must have completed one semester of law school.
Value: varies
General Funds
- James W. Day Student Loan Fund
- Mark Hulsey, Jr., Student Loan Fund
- L. David Llewelyn Loan Fund
- Giddings E. Mabry Loan Fund
- Frank E. Maloney Memorial Loan Fund
Students in the graduate tax program should contact the Graduate Tax Office, College of Law, for further information.