Gonzaga Law School creates full scholarships in honor of lawyer Carl Maxey, Judge Franklin Burgess

The Gonzaga University School of Law has launched a new full scholarship in honor of the late Carl Maxey, an attorney and civil rights leader who graduated from the GU School of Law in 1951.

It also has created the Honorable Franklin D. Burgess Law Scholarship open to all students.

The Carl Maxey Social Justice Scholarship will be given to three incoming first-year law students every year beginning this fall, said law school Dean Jacob Rooksby. Once awarded, the scholarship will continue for each of the three years the student is enrolled before graduating.

“It’s a pretty special program,” Rooksby said.

The scholarship has a competitive application process, and

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