Bowers Receives Chief Justice Roberts Scholarship from ECLF
Posted on August 26th, 2020 at 1:31 PM
Paul Bowers, who recently earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, is the 2020 successful aspirant for the prestigious Chief Justice Samuel J. Roberts Scholarship, administered and awarded for the Roberts Family by the Erie County Law Foundation. Bowers will attend the University of Virginia School of Law in the fall. In his scholarship application, Bowers wrote he is motivated to help his community. “Although it may sound like a cliché, the reason why I want to become a lawyer is simple: to better the community. By becoming an attorney I aspire to ensure clients are receiving the most equitable treatment possible under our justice system, even if they lack the technical knowledge of the law to do so.”
The Pennsylvania Chief Justice Samuel J. Roberts Scholarship Committee found that competition for the annual scholarship was again extremely keen, representing another inspiring field of local aspirants in the more than quarter century history of the award. Ultimately, the Committee found that Bowers, who graduated from college with a high grade-point average, exemplified the many qualities demonstrated during the long and distinguished career of Chief Justice Roberts, the Erie lawyer and judge who rose to lead the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s highest court, and became one of the nation’s most respected jurists.
In addition to awarding the 2020 scholarship to Bowers, the Committee, citing the academic success of Erie County’s Colleen Campbell at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, and David DeFelice at in the law school at George Washington University, renewed their Roberts Scholarships for their continued years of law school.
The committee includes attorneys Dan Braveman, president of Nazareth College, Tina M. Fryling, Bradley Enterline, Dennis Haines, Patrick Michael Livingston, Mary Alfieri Richmond, Scott T. Stroupe, John J. Mehler, David M. Zurn and William Speros, and lay representatives Kathleen Horan, formerly of Stairways Behavioral Health, and Jeff Pinski, formerly of Edinboro University and the Erie Times-News.
