Patrick Ryan, a third year law student at John Marshall law school, won the winter/spring 2009 Jack Carey Scholarship last week. The award, which was recently increased from $2000 to $2500, was awarded to Ryan who was selected from a field of many qualified and respected candidates. Ryan has been working for months as a clerk in the Traffic Division of the Law Office of the Public Defender with assistant public defenders Theresa Nelson, Melissa Myer, Jerry Byerly and Mychal Luther. He is known for the tremendous hours he has been putting in at the office, sometimes four days a week while still enrolled in law school full time. Ryan’s future goals are to pursue a career as an assistant public defender. The next scholarship will be for the summer of 2009 and the deadline is 4/1/09.