2025 CLEA Awards for Outstanding Clinical and Externship Students: UVA’s Cam Moody

Each year, the Clinical Legal Education Association invites law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating their outstanding students. 

From the University of Virginia School of Law: 

CLEA Outstanding Student of the Year: Cam Moody 

We are pleased to nominate Cam Moody ’25 for the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student Award.

Cam has been a stalwart contributor to clinical work during their time at UVA. As a 1L, Cam volunteered with the Environmental Law Clinic, offering to lend their pre-law school expertise in environmental permitting. Cam then enrolled in the Environmental Law Clinic as a 2L, taking the lead in assisting a low-income family (an elderly woman and her daughter) who were challenging the permit application for an asphalt plant just 200 feet from their door. Thanks to Cam’s advocacy, the asphalt company withdrew its application. Cam was there for our clients on evenings and weekends – whether it was a public hearing or a client-organized Booker T. Washington birthday commemoration.

As a 3L, Cam continued their commitment to clinical work with the Holistic Youth Defense Clinic. Though Cam had no prior experience in youth delinquency work, they volunteered to start working on a time-sensitive case before the semester started. During the semester, Cam was a zealous advocate for youth clients and continued representing one client at an important disposition hearing after the semester had ended. Cam even offered to volunteer to represent a client at a hearing in July, when they would be studying for the bar exam!

Cam exemplified the values of community lawyering, patiently taking the time to listen to every client’s concerns.

Cam’s maturity, humility, and willingness to show up in-person for clients are why we are delighted to nominate them for this award.

https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/202505/graduating-student-seeks-be-advocate-they-never-had