Chase Student Jennifer Zaccheus-Miller Honored for Work for Others

Jennifer Zaccheus-Miller will receive the Salmon P. Chase Award, as the graduating student whose activities best represent the spirit of advocacy Salmon P. Chase displayed as a lawyer before his political and judicial careers.

Like Chase, who advocated for the powerless, Ms. Miller has been a tireless advocate for the interests and needs of others. She has:

• Advocated in the Chase Constitutional Litigation Clinic for the rights of prisoners to medical treatment.
• Mentored teenagers in juvenile drug courts.
• Volunteered with the Street Law program and Boys and Girls Club, and trained her dog, Maximus, to be a therapy dog for abused children and adolescents with psychiatric problems.

In addition to her work for others, she has been active in student organizations at Chase and in bar association activities in Kentucky and Ohio. She has done all of it while studying and working as a paralegal.

Among the recommendations that she receive the award were:

“She has achieved successes for her clinic clients that some practicing lawyers should envy and emulate.”

“I have never had a student that better exemplifies a commitment to social justice. She is the best student I have ever had.”

Ms. Zaccheus-Miller will receive the award at the Chase commencement ceremony, May 5, on the Northern Kentucky University campus.