Sharlene Koonce '17 and Holly Snead '17 Win 47th Annual Neumiller Competition

The team of Sharlene Koonce '17 and Holly Snead '17 took top honors at the 47th Annual Neumiller Competition held in the Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom on April 9, narrowly edging the team of Isaac Walrath '17 and William Foster '17.

The King Hall students argued before a distinguished panel of judges that included the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Honorable Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California, the Honorable William J. Murray, Jr., of the California Third District Court of Appeal, and the Honorable Louis R. Mauro, also of the California Third District Court of Appeal. King Hall faculty in attendance included Professor Floyd Feeney, Professor Leslie McAllister, and Professor Emeritus Allen Brownstein.

The Neumiller Competition is the culmination of each year's Appellate Advocacy program at King Hall, wherein top students from the Appellate Advocacy course are selected to compete in front of a panel of distinguished judges.  In recent years, the panels have included Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye '84, Justice Leondra Kruger of the Supreme Court of California, and Ninth Circuit Judges Alex Kozinski, Michael Daly Hawkins, Sandra S. Ikuta, Stephen Reinhardt, and Mary Schroeder, among others.