Jo Balding Scholarship supports legal education
OKLAHOMA CITY – University of Oklahoma paralegal student Alicia Merrick was recently named the 2021 recipient of the Crowe & Dunlevy B. Jo Balding Scholarship.
The $1,000 scholarship is named for longtime Crowe & Dunlevy paralegal B. Jo Balding, who spent more than 50 years with the firm.
The Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation established the annual scholarship in 2013. Scholarship applicants must be enrolled in the Legal Assistant Education Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and be in good academic standing with at least an 8.1 grade point average in legal specialty courses.
Merrick is a student in the University of Oklahoma Law Center’s Legal Assistant Education Program. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Central Oklahoma.