Scholarship
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE JUDGE PAUL G. FEINMAN SCHOLARSHIP
The International LGBTQ Judges’ Foundation’s objectives include providing financial scholarships to support law students who demonstrate a commitment to the LGBTQ+ community. Consistent with this mission, the Foundation strongly supports the recognition of legal excellence among law students by funding the Judge Paul G. Feinman Scholarship awarded by the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges. For more information about the Feinman scholarship, please visit: https://lgbtqjudges.org/scholarship/
Illustrative of the kind of scholarship endeavors anticipated to be supported by the Foundation is the history of scholarship awards made by the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges. 2022 recipients of the Judge Paul G. Feinman Scholarship are:
- Tamia “Mia” Perez, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Sunny Khan Frothingham, The University of North Carolina School of Law
- Etty Singer, Boston University School of Law
Mia Perez
University of Nevada – Las Vegas
This year’s primary Scholarship recipient was Tamia “Mia” Perez from the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A self-described “black woman of trans experience,” Mia has a strong commitment of service within marginalized communities, having clerked for the Legal Aid Society advocating on behalf of at-risk youth in foster care, the ACLU, and doing pro-bono work at the local Las Vegas LGBT Center. She is the Deputy U.S. Bureau Chief of the online audio and video magazine, Jurist, reporting on legal news & commentary. During the summer, she clerked for the Nevada Supreme Court and has presented on multiple occasions with the NYS Bar Association. She is now a member of the Board of Directors of the National Trans Bar Association.
The stories shared by the applicants were so intensely compelling that the Board decided to award additional secondary scholarships to deserving students, Sunny Khan Frothingham of the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Etty Singer from Boston University School of Law.
Sunny Khan Frothingham
University of North Carolina School of Law
Sunny is a “queer North Carolinian” with an extraordinary history of advocacy work and scholarship, including successful advocacy for inclusion of trans-inclusive benefits to a student health insurance plan, multiple successes in expanding gender-neutral bathrooms at various work locations, and expansion of NC name change clinics.
Etty Singer
Boston University School of Law
Etty, who was shunned from her Hasidic community upon finding her lesbian identity, shares that her “experience has left [her] with a profound understanding of injustice, and it moved [her] to study the law. . . to do [her] part in helping others.” During the Summer of 2022, she was the judicial intern for the Hon. Denise Casper of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.