MABL Receives the American Bar Association's Alexander Award
- Communications Committee
- Feb 10
- 1 min read
On February 7, 2026, the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers (MABL) Law School Pathways Program was awarded the Alexander Award by the American Bar Association (ABA) at the Titan's Gala in San Antonio, Texas. MABL's Immediate Past President Dana Mitchell and MABL Member Amanda Matchett, who both helped develop and found the Pathways Program, received the award on behalf of MABL and MABL's Law School Pathways Program.
The MABL Law School Pathways Program is a pioneering initiative designed to prepare Minnesota College Students who support the MABL Mission for success in law school and the legal profession. The immersive Pathways Program offers a full range of services to prepare Minnesota students for law school including: rigorous LSAT preparation, academic mentoring, career counseling, ongoing support during law school, and continued career guidance and skill development for success in the legal profession.
The ABA's Alexander Award award honors an individual or pipeline organization that has demonstrated exemplary leadership and success in expanding opportunities for and success of underrepresented students, including racial and ethnic minoritized communities, students with disabilities, and students who identify as LGBTQ+, along the educational pipeline into and through law school and into the profession.
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The Alexander Awards are named after Raymond Pace Alexander, the first African American to graduate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and become a judge on the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Learn More at: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/diversity_pipeline/projects_initiatives/alexander_award/
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