Maiya Lane is receiving the Salmon P. Chase Award of
Chase College of Law for 2024 as the graduating student whose law-related volunteer work best represents the spirit of advocacy Salmon P. Chase displayed as a lawyer before his political and judicial careers.
Lane has applied the full range of skills she has developed at Chase to advocate for the interests of individuals and entire communities. She dedicated her past two summers to working on behalf of individuals, mostly recently in the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans and previously with the Ohio Justice & Policy Center in Cincinnati. During the current academic year, she advocated in court through the Chase Children’s Law Center Clinic for the interests of a child in a high-conflict custody case. She has also worked with the Kentucky Innocence Project to investigate prisoners’ credible claims of wrongful convictions. In the community, she serves on the board of Community and Restorative Justice-Covington, an organization that facilitates peacemaking circles in the juvenile court system and the Covington community, and has worked diligently to position it in its mission of utilizing the justice system to correct and prevent harms, while also holding wrongdoers accountable.
