Judge Ann Aldrich / Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon LCOP Scholarship

As part of our Legal Career Opportunities Program (LCOP) Celebration,

please join us in supporting LCOP Students by donating to:

Judge Ann Aldrich / Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon LCOP Scholarship Fund

About the LCOP Scholarship:

This scholarship provides scholarships to students admitted to the Legal Career Opportunities Program (LCOP), a groundbreaking program established in 1972 that admits students whose applications, when viewed in their entirety, have demonstrated strong academic ability, perseverance, and promise for success, but whose standardized test score does not reflect their greater potential. 

Many of our students are first generation law students, and without a scholarship, they would not have the opportunity to fulfill their dream of being a lawyer. We are a law school of excellence and opportunity, and pride ourselves on giving first generation and nontraditional law students access to a high-quality legal education.

History:

Judge Ann Aldrich was the first tenured woman law professor at CSU Law and later the first woman federal judge in Ohio. Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon, a 1975 graduate of CSU Law, was the first Black woman elected to a state court of appeals in Ohio. Judge Blackmon recently retired as a Judge on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. Both are members of the CSU Law's Hall of Fame, and Judge Blackmon is a Jurist-in-Residence at CSU Law.

Disappointed by a dearth of minority students at Cleveland Law College, Professor Aldrich started a student recruitment program in the early 1970’s at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the South. She recruited a promising young woman, Patricia Ann Blackmon, a magna cum laude graduate of Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Patricia Blackmon enrolled at CSU Law and Judge Blackmon was a student in the first LCOP class in 1972. From there Professor Aldrich and Patricia Blackmon began their decades long close friendship. The rest is history.

 Please donate today to provide even more students access to a high-quality legal education.