Gallery | FIFTY YEARS OF BLSA

From the Archives: BLSA Photo Gallery

BLSA members, 2005, Barrister (Law School yearbook).

Spring awards banquet, April 2019, UVA BLSA Facebook.

Admitted Students Weekend, 2012, UVA BLSA Facebook.

Study break, 2011-2012, UVA BLSA Blog.

Winter Diversity Firm Reception, 2013, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members join in on anti-apartheid protests at the McIntire Amphitheater, 1987, Law Archives.

BLSA hosts a 1L Kickoff event, 2009, Records of BLSA.

BALSA Policy Council 1979-1980. 1st row: Grace Belsches, Bettye Scott, Joyce Putman, Carolyn Ayres; 2nd row: Cheryl Bass, Deborah Royster, Deborah Jenkins, William Claiborne. Records of the Virginia Law Weekly.

BLSA members participate in New Orleans Advocacy Week, 2010, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members, 2010-2011, Records of BLSA.

BLSA Members, 2018-2019, Law Archives.

End of Year BLSA Banquet, April 2011, UVA BLSA Blog.

BLSA members, 2013, Law Archives.

BLSA hosts a lecture series on the role of non-Black allies, 2020, UVA BLSA Facebook.

BLSA class of 2014 as 1Ls, 2011, Law Archives.

BLSA reception for students and Law faculty, 2009, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members watch a presidential debate in the BLSA office, 2012, Records of BLSA.

Mentor-Mentee Bowling, 2010, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members, left to right; Front row: Rene Cabral-Daniels, Christa Speight, Jana Bray, Kimm Gee, Charles Durant, Tasha Perdew, Lissa Shella; Second row: Yvette Gibbons, Terrence Graves, Jeremiah DeBerry, Angela Clark, Christopher Payne, Regina Clark, Stephanie Stephens; Third row: D. Williams, Carla Tademy, Ernest Sanders Jr., Darryl Hobbs, Naila Ahmed, Gregory Jones, Chuck Wilson, Lindal Scott; Fourth row: George P. Braxton, Jason Murray, Kevin C. Bruce, Brian D. Poe, Kelly Martin, Traci Williams, Tracy Preston, Cecil Wills; Fifth row: Cotie Jones, Kwame Nkrumah, Tonya Lewis, Glynda Poydras, Jackie Wilson, Donnell Turner. 1991, Barrister (Law School yearbook).

Three BLSA Presidents, from left to right: Rachel Barnes '21 (2018-2019), Allison Burns '22 (2020-2021), and Lillian Childress '21 (2019-2020).

Winter Diversity Firm Reception, 2013, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members with former Virginia governor Lawrence Wilder, 2012, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members, left to right; Front row: Veronica Saxton, Dimetria Jackson, Kimberly Gee, Melbra Giles, Glynn Key, Lisa Wilson, Christopher Payne, Charles Durant; Second row: Dean Forbes, Carlton Reeves, Felicia Washington, George Braxton, Jana Bragg, Melinda Woods, Robert Brown, Clarence Gary, Kimberly Hart, Kenneth Wheeler, Vincent Mathis; Third row: Errol Phipps, Robert Long, Montee Wynn, Kevin Carter, Michael Smith, Melanie Fields, Glenn Walters, Lily Graves, Terrence Graves. 1989, Barrister (Law School yearbook).

BLSA members celebrate winning Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Year, 2007, Law Communications.

BLSA hosts a welcome event for 1Ls at King Family Vineyard, 2009, Records of BLSA.

BLSA members, left to right; First row: Butch Hollowell, Phil Davis, Greg Whitehead, Rod Ruffin; Second row: Desiree Cooper, Celeste Redmond, Agnes Alexis, Morris Parker, Debbie Awai, Lillian Brown, Pam Lassiter, Von Castilla; Third row: Edith Hull, Eva Chess, Colette Wallace, Carolyn Fletcher, Alveno Castilla. 1983, Barrister (Law School yearbook).

BLSA members gather in a classroom for a meeting, 1987, Barrister (Law School yearbook).

Gregory Swanson enrolls at UVA Law and integrates UVA as the first Black student to attend the University, September 1950, Albert & Shirley Small Small Special Collections Library.

End of Year BLSA Banquet, April 2011, UVA BLSA Blog.

BLSA members; First row, left to right: Dinitri McGhee, Sheila Witherspoon, Carolyn Ayres, Martha Rodriguez; Second row: James Hall, Carmen Johnson, Karen Williams, Nancy Griffin, Deborah Jenkins, Deborah Sandifer, Grace Belches; Third row: Raymon Palmer, Lynn French, Cheryl Bass, Michael Turner, John Harris, Pete Parker, David Sylvester, Eric Vickers, Glenn Carrington. 1979, Barrister (Law School yearbook).