
Long Beach Bar Foundation Scholarship Fund
For College-Bound High School Seniors
The Long Beach Bar Association is proud to award scholarships to high achieving, college-bound high school students from across Long Beach in order to make their financial burden more manageable.
This scholarship fund is one of the many ways the Long Beach Bar Association seeks to give back to our community. If you are a member of the Long Beach Bar Association and would like to join the Scholarship Committee to select next year's award recipients, please visit the Committees page.
Awards Dinner
We're happy to announce that this year's Scholarship Awards Dinner will take place on the evening of June 29th at the offices of Keesal, Young & Logan! We are looking forward to honoring our finalists and awarding their scholarships. Stay tuned for news of the ticket sale!
Applicant Information
If you are a high school senior from the class of 2023 who would like to apply for the Long Beach Bar Association Scholarship, the deadline has been extended to May 8th, 2023, at 12 PM. Please click the button below to learn more!
Support the Fund
For more information on donating to our Scholarship Fund and on our Donor Incentives please use the "Donate" button below. To learn more or join us at our next fundraiser please visit our Events" page.
Scholarship Fund History -
In Support of Education
By Alison Flowers
Some of the core values of the Long Beach Bar Association are knowledge, collegiality, and service to the community. In upholding these values, the Bar has provided recognition and distinction to local students for their scholarly accomplishments. As Walt Disney stated, “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
On December 18, 1958, the Law Day Committee recommended that a scholarship be established. Since then the Bar has been awarding high-achieving, college-bound high school students from across Long Beach with scholarships in order to make the financial burden of higher education more manageable. Over the years, recipients of the Bar’s scholarships have included promising students who later went on to become prominent members of the community. Some of these recipients include a local councilman, a senior executive with the Port of Long Beach, a community developer fighting for affordable housing, graduates of ivy league schools, and innumerable other valuable professionals.
In providing these scholarships, the Bar has awarded over $500,000 to these worthy students during the tenure of the Scholarship Program. A dinner is also held in honor of these remarkable students to further demonstrate the Bar’s support and encouragement.
As the cost of education increases, it becomes more and more essential that students are provided with the tools needed to succeed. In the 59th year of the Scholarship Program and the centennial year, the Bar awarded $55,000 in scholarships to fourteen Long Beach high school seniors, which was the largest award of scholarships in the history of the Program. In addition, the Bar created a Centennial Endowment Scholarship fund with an initial funding of over $50,000 in recognition of the Bar’s first 100 years.
The Scholarship Program is one of the ways in which the Bar gives back to the community. The generosity of sponsors and donors throughout Long Beach also makes possible this contribution to the education and future of Long Beach’s aspiring youth.
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2022 Scholarship Recipients
Erin Chim - McBride
Julia Sutedjo - Poly
Hebah Halibi - Poly
Virginia Soto Hernandez - Avalon
Sofia Ascencio - Millikan
Antonia Bareford - St. Anthony’s
Ruth Bishay - Millikan
Anouska Ortiz - Poly
Worren Booth - Lakewood
Anthony Valdespino - McBride
2019 Scholarship Recipients
Brooke Borders - Lakewood
Drew Buchanon - Wilson
Evan Coulter - Millikan
Shanaya Daughtrey - Lakewood
Sergio Diaz - Cabrillo
Esmeralda Garcia-Castellanos - Poly
Mark Leonardo Gliane - Cabrillo
Giovanni Longino - McBride
Elizabeth Matos - Poly
Carolina Newton - Wilson
Nayeli Santa Cruz - St. Anthony’s
Erin Shin - Poly
John Sucro - Cabrillo
Caris White - Poly
Isaiah Williams - Millikan
2017 Scholarship Recipients
Elika Asis - Lakewood
Brandon Cramer - McBride
Cassidy Hunt - Poly
Aitana Jordan- Wilson
Brittany Kealoha - Millikan
Sara Knippa - Poly
Taylor Logan - Wilson
Daniel Martinez - St. Anthony’s
Cesar Mena - Lakewood
Pablo Moraga - Wilson
Leigha Onwu - Cabrillo
Isabella Peres - Lakewood
Adonis Rubio - Wilson
Jao San Agustin - Cabrillo
2018 Scholarship Recipients
Alexa Ara - Wilson
Bryanna Becerra - Poly
Lauren Calderon - Poly
Drew Jones - Lakewood
Samantha Kerns - Lakewood
Joy McQueary - St. Anthony’s
Andela Misic - Wilson
Julia Pecego - Poly
Gracelyn Pham - CAMS
Samera Raqueno - Cabrillo
Rebecca Remple - Milikan
Vanessa Rivera Hernandez - Poly
Cindy Sahagun - Wilson
Cadence Stringer - Wilson
Vincent You - Milikan