2025 Law School Award Recipients

Alumnus of the Year Award
Mark A. Cameli, Arts ’82, Law ’85
Brookfield, Wis.

A respected litigator with decades of experience, Mark Cameli represents people and companies “facing some of their most difficult challenges ever, often as targets or subjects of government investigations and prosecutions,” he explains. “I ensure they are afforded due process and that government overreach is limited.”

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Lifetime Achievement Award
Joseph E. Tierney III, Bus Ad ’64, Law ’66
Wauwatosa, Wis.

Joseph E. Tierney III took part in two Tierney family traditions: practicing law and attending Marquette to do so. His grandfather, a member of the first class to graduate from the Law School in 1911, practiced law in Milwaukee until his death in 1960. His father graduated in 1941 and went on to serve in the FBI and as a Milwaukee attorney and certified public accountant.

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Howard B. Eisenberg Service Award
Mary L. Ferwerda, Grad ’11, Law ’11
Milwaukee, Wis.

As a law student, Mary Ferwerda worked with the Marquette Volunteer Law Clinics and remembers saying, “I just want this to be my full-time job.” So it was fitting when she became the first program coordinator for the Milwaukee Justice Center (MJC) Mobile Legal Clinic and, just two years later, the MJC executive director.  A collaborative project of the Marquette Law School, the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, and Milwaukee Bar Association, the MJC provides free civil legal aid to low-income people at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.    

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Charles W. Mentkowski Sports Law Award
Christian L. Bray, Law ’14
Framingham, Mass.

Christian Bray, who serves as senior associate director of athletics at Harvard University, describes her personal formula for success as “work hard, work smart, and exercise empathy.”

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