{"id":3508,"date":"2026-10-19T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:11:48","slug":"eight-honorees-celebrated-at-the-2026-law-alumni-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/eight-honorees-celebrated-at-the-2026-law-alumni-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Honorees Celebrated at the 2026 Law Alumni Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/10\/croppedFW0A7245_websize-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo\" class=\"wp-image-3603\" width=\"768\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/10\/croppedFW0A7245_websize-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/10\/croppedFW0A7245_websize-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/10\/croppedFW0A7245_websize-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/10\/croppedFW0A7245_websize.jpg 1141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolina Law celebrated eight members of its community at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/law.unc.edu\/alumni\/awards\/\">Law Alumni Association Awards<\/a> Dinner on Oct. 9 at the Carolina Club. Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Jim Delany \u201973, who led the Big Ten Conference for three decades, Wade Hargrove \u201965, one of the nation\u2019s most respected media lawyers, and Richard Stevens \u201974, a former Wake County manager and five-term state senator. Distinguished Alumni Awards honored Pat Brown \u201986, chief legal officer at SAS, Elizabeth Luck \u201989, who leads the federal Defender Services Office, and Wilson White \u201906, who heads government affairs for Google across the Asia-Pacific region. Zac Long \u201912, CEO of Well Care Health, received the Emerging Leader Award, and <a href=\"https:\/\/law.unc.edu\/people\/william-p-marshall\/\">Professor Bill Marshall<\/a> was recognized with the S. Elizabeth Gibson Award for Faculty Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Law Alumni Weekend Award Winners 2026 | UNC Law\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZSZvfW2iAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Big Ten commissioner, a Google executive and the head of the nation\u2019s federal defender system were among eight honorees at this year\u2019s Law Alumni Association Awards. Watch the 2026 recipients share what Carolina Law means to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/fall-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}