Amount: $15,000 $45,000. About: Offered by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Earl Warren Scholarship is a $15,000 $45,000 award to support rising law students whose commitment to social justice reveals outstanding potential for training as civil rights and public interest attorneys. Applicants must be rising law students whose commitment to racial justice reveal outstanding potential for training as civil rights and public interest attorneys; must be college graduate; undergraduate enrolled in the final year of college/university; or first-year law student; students include those entering their first or second year of full-time legal study at an accredited law school; must be a full-time student at an accredited law school; must be attending accredited law schools in the United States; must be a U.S. citizen; must record of strong academic performance; must demonstrated an ongoing commitment to racial justice and civil rights; financial need.
Eligible Grade Levels: Graduate Student, College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior
Eligible Majors: Law
Residency Requirement: No residency requirement
Minimum GPA: No GPA requirement
Deadline: May 1. Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor’s website for up-to-date deadlines.