SCHOOL OF LAW
The Rising Tide 2.0 Capital Campaign set out to strengthen the University of Alabama School of Law – for its students, its faculty and staff and the State it serves.
Because of our alumni and friends, it did just that.
Their generosity endowed scholarships that keep a legal education within reach, created professorships that attract and retain nationally recognized scholars and modernized the spaces and technology where students learn.
Today, the School enrolls the strongest student body in its history, and its graduates leave better prepared than ever before. Every gift, of every size, contributed to that progress, and the foundation it built will serve the UA School of Law for decades to come.
LETTER FROM THE DEAN
Continuing the Legacy of Legends
Dear alumni and friends of the Law School,
When we launched The Rising Tide 2.0 Capital Campaign, I wrote that our flagship law school had every reason to aim higher, and that a gift to Alabama Law was a sound investment in that ambition. You answered that call, and the results are profound.
Together, alumni and friends gave [final tally to confirm] to the School of Law. That generosity reached every part of the school: scholarships that keep a legal education within reach, professorships that help us recruit and retain nationally recognized scholars, technology matched to how lawyers practice today, and programs that ready students for careers across the profession.
The impact of this Campaign is already evident. Today, we enroll the strongest student body in our history. Our graduates leave better prepared than ever before. Our reputation for excellence reflects well on the University and the state we serve.
While the Campaign has closed, the opportunities you created will endure. They will bear fruit for decades – in the students they educate, the scholarship they make possible and the leaders they send into our state and nation.
Alabama Law is stronger because you chose to be part of it, and I am grateful for every gift and every person who carried this effort forward.
With gratitude
Roll Tide!
Bill Brewbaker
Dean and Professor of Law
THE MOMENTUM WE BUILT
$37.5M
TOTAL RAISED
36
NEW ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
5
NEW FACULTY SUPPORT
ENDOWMENTS
THE IMPACT OF RISING TOGETHER
A Gift That Multiplies: The Silver Faculty Scholars
For roughly six decades, Irving Silver has practiced law in Mobile, building a respected practice in estate planning, trusts, business succession and charitable giving.
In 2026, the profession recognized that career with his induction into the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor.His investment in Alabama Law will last just as long.
Through the Irving Silver and Frances Grodsky Silver Faculty Scholar Endowment Fund established
during The Rising Tide 2.0 Capital Campaign, Irving and Frances Silver have created lasting support that helps the School attract nationally recognized scholars who define its reputation. A named faculty scholar position supports professors’ ambitious research and helps bring that work directly into the classroom.
The result is already on the faculty roster. The Silver Faculty Scholar title has passed from its inaugural holder, Mirit Eyal, to Julie Andersen Hill, Yonathan Arbel, Russell M. Gold, and, today, Daiquiri Steele. Each has used that support to produce scholarship that raises the School's national profile – a direct answer to one of the campaign's original goals: a stronger faculty.
Opening Doors for Alabama's Next Lawyers: The Jackson Endowed Scholarship
John Hollis Jackson Jr. has practiced law in Alabama for roughly six decades, building a wide-ranging practice at Jackson & Jackson in Clanton across real estate, probate, corporate, banking, local government and civil litigation.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in 1963 and his law degree from the School of Law in 1966, and he has carried a reputation for excellence ever since, reflected in the AV Preeminent rating he holds among fellow attorneys.
Now, Jackson and his wife, Rebecca, are opening that same path for the students who follow him. Through a commitment across two pledges to the Law School Foundation, they created the John Hollis Jackson Jr. and Rebecca M. Jackson Endowed Scholarship – a permanent fund whose earnings help students meet the cost of a legal education, from tuition and books to room and board.
The scholarship reflects the career that inspired it. Priority goes to second- and third-year students who plan to practice local government, education, real estate or probate law – the work that has defined Jackson's own decades at the bar. For the students it reaches, it means something more immediate: the freedom to pursue the kind of practice they believe in, without the weight of cost making that choice harder.