The Rhode Island Law Day (RILD) Committee, with particular help from the Rhode Island Bar Association, the Rhode Island Judiciary, Roger Williams University School of Law, and the Rhode Island Police Chiefs’ Association, sponsored the 2020 Hon. Francis J. Darigan, Jr. Rhode Island Law Day Essay Contest. Open to all Rhode Island 10th and 11th grade students, the Contest focused on Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100, the same topic offered through this year’s RILD Classroom Programs.
Declan Allio, a student at The Wheeler School in Providence, won first place in this year’s contest. Declan will receive a $1,000 scholastic award made possible through the combined generosity of the Rhode Island Bar Association and the Rhode Island Police Chiefs’ Association. He will also receive a personalized engraved trophy cup, and his school will receive the Hon. Francis J. Darigan, Jr. Rhode Island Law Day Essay Contest trophy cup for a one-year display, and a permanent plaque commemorating Declan’s achievement. And, thanks to the generosity of the Edward P. Gallogly Family Law Inns of Court, a second place winner, Lilie Young, another student at The Wheeler School, will be awarded a $250 scholastic award and a personalized engraved trophy cup.