Alicia Emili of Allentown honored at Widener Law student awards ceremony

2014 May 13

The Widener Law campus in Harrisburg, Pa. held its annual student awards ceremony Thursday, April 24 in the school administration building. The annual event honors students for academic and leadership achievements.

Widener University President James T. Harris III attended the program and told students their accomplishments, amid the rigors of law school, are remarkable. Law, he said, is one of the "highest callings."

"There is always a need for justice. Lawyers make sure justice gets served," Harris said.

Those honored included:

Alicia E. Emili, of Allentown, Pa., 18103.

She received an outstanding student service award, given annually to graduating students who have been actively involved in the Widener community and who have been of outstanding service to the school. Emili served as chair of the campus Wills for Heroes volunteer effort, schedule coordinator for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, liaison between the law school and the Dauphin County Bar Association, and volunteer project chair of the Women's Law Caucus. She was a staff editor on the Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race.

Emili will graduate May 18, 2014 with her Juris Doctor and a business advising certificate. She plans to take the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar exams and wants to practice corporate law in the Lehigh Valley.

She is the daughter of David Emili of Allentown and Linda Cuono Emili of Easton, Pa.