The 9th Annual Freedom Scholarship Contest

Brooks, LeBoeuf, Bennett, Foster & Gwartney is proud to announce the
9th Annual Freedom Scholarship Essay Contest.

We want to thank all of the students that submitted essays for our 9th annual Freedom Scholarship Essay contest. The finalists have been chosen - those ten essays will be submitted to independent judges to select the 2009 winner. Congratulations to our finalists:

Thomas Blevins - Chiles High School
Taylor Burgess - Community Christian
Douglas Chico - Florida High
Kelly Conroy - John Paul II Catholic High
Christopher Coulter - Florida High
Brittney Dane - Chiles High
Michael DiTanna - Chiles High
Geoffrey Linn - Godby High
Jessica Pickett - Rickards High
Jessica Stephens - Homeschooled

The winning student will be announced in the coming weeks. 

For more information about the Freedom Scholarship contact Lauren Heitmeyer at Brooks, LeBoeuf, Bennett, Foster & Gwartney, P.A., (850) 222-2000.

Recap of contest rules:

• The applicant must be a high school junior or senior and a resident of Leon, Wakulla, Gadsden or Jefferson County.
• The essay must be typewritten and contain no less than 500 and no more than 1,000 words. The subject of the essay must be: The Bill of Rights: What it means to me as an American. The essay must cover one, any combination or all of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
• Only one essay may be submitted per person.
• No current or past employees or immediate family members of Brooks, LeBoeuf, Bennett, Foster & Gwartney, or of the independent celebrity judges are eligible to enter the competition.
• The top ten essays will be submitted to a panel of independent celebrity judges who will select the award winning essay. One scholarship in the amount of $2,500 will be awarded directly to a high school junior or senior.
• The completed application with an original essay must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, 2009 (note: we have extended the deadline - the new deadline is 4/30/09). Essays can be mailed or hand-delivered to:

Brooks, LeBoeuf, Bennett, Foster & Gwartney, P.A.,
Attention: Freedom Scholarship
909 East Park Avenue
Tallahassee, Florida 32301

Freedom Scholarship Winners:
2008 William Doran, Leon High School                           
2007 Kathleen Wade, Lincoln High School
2006 Rebecca Lu, Lincoln High School
2005 Lisa Nicole Trainor, Lincoln High School
2004 Layne Zhao, Lincoln High School
2003 Rachel Kuncicky, Lincoln High School
2002 Katie Lynn Ball, Lincoln High School
2001 Whitney Johnson-Rule, Rickards High School

2008 Freedom Scholarship winner William Doran meets Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp
From left to right: Nora Doran, William Doran, Lt. Governor Kottkamp,
Matthew Foster, Dean LeBoeuf, Rhonda Bennett