Chicago-Kent College of Law recently received the 2019 Henry J. Ramsey, Jr. Diversity Award from the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association.
The award—named in honor of Henry J. Ramsey Jr., who served as dean of the Howard University School of Law from 1990 to 1996—recognizes Chicago-Kent’s efforts to create a more welcoming environment for transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming (GNC) members of the law school community.
The Chicago-Kent Lambdas, a student organization for LGBTQ students and their allies, worked with the law school administration to create two gender-neutral restrooms as well as to encourage members of the law school community to share their pronouns in their email signatures and on name tags.
The restrooms in the Chicago Loop building opened for use at the beginning of the fall 2018 semester.