Congratulations to the Fall of 2010 Marshall-Brennan Fellows!

John Kennedy

Alexander Kopplin

Ann Knutson

Ashlie McDonough

Christopher Proczko

Jeff Schroeder

Ryan Simatic

Tina Toffoli

Michael Weinbeck

Abigail Wucherer

About the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project

The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project seeks to empower high school students to be responsible citizens and lifelong participants in the democratic process by teaching them about their constitutional rights and responsibilities through the Supreme Court cases that affect students directly.

The William Mitchell Chapter started in the fall of 2009. William Mitchell law students selected to be Marshall-Brennan Fellows take a seminar with Professor Mary Pat Byrn. Simultaneously, Marshall-Brennan Fellows are placed in pairs in local high schools to teach Constitutional Law to 11th and 12th grade students. Marshall-Brennan Fellows function as full-fledged teachers - planning lessons, grading papers, and inspiring and counseling students.

The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was founded in 1999. The Project was named for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan Jr. and was founded with the enthusiastic support of their widows, Mrs. Cissy Marshall and Mrs. Mary Brennan (1916-2000). Justices Marshall and Brennan were chosen because of their commitment to education as the touchstone of both effective demoractic citizenship and personal success in our society.