Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Program to Kickoff Diversity
Week Published: February 18 2011 On Monday February 21st at noon in
the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom on the Delaware campus Widener Law
will honor New Castle County Councilman Jea P Street as part of its
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemorative Program. This year’s
program will also serve as the start of Diversity week which will
run from the 21st through the 26th. Councilman Street will be
presented with the Martin Luther King Semester of Service Award
which is presented annually to a member of the community “who has
lived Dr. King’s dream who has manifested in their life’s work
those commitments to community service and to social justice that
the School of Law seeks in our Semester of Service project.”
Through the project Widener Law students contribute their efforts
to charitable labor and pro bono law-related service. The semester
of service happens each spring and is now in its fifth year. The
school’s first semester of service award was given in February 2010
to Judge Murray M. Schwartz former chief judge of the United States
District Court for Delaware. The winner is chosen by the law dean
from a list of nominees forwarded by the school’s Faculty Diversity
and Accommodations Committee. Speakers at the Commemoration Program
will include Widener School of Law Dean Linda L. Ammons and Leland
Ware Louis L. Redding Chair and Professor of Law & Public
Policy University of Delaware. The Program also will feature the
launch of the Fifth Annual Martin Luther King Semester of Service.
Councilman Jea P. Street attended the Wilmington Public School
System and is a graduate of The University of Delaware. He
currently serves as the Executive Director of Hilltop Lutheran
Neighborhood Center where he has served for over twenty years and
as the New Castle County Councilmember for the County’s Tenth
District. Councilman Street has also served as Director of Parks
and Recreation for the City