Leadership Honors Program

Leading The Way

Enhancing Your Skills

Graduates of the Leadership Honors Program earn a Leadership Honors Program certificate in addition to the Juris Doctorate. Students in the program undertake the full J.D. curriculum with other members of their graduating class and participate in a specially-designed Graduated Leadership Sequence. 

• In the first year, you engage with national and international experts in law, governance and business in the Honors Roundtable Series, chaired by former Ohio Governor Bob Taft. 
• In the second year, you participate in a leadership seminar.
• In the next-to-last semester, you create your Leadership Legacy by working together on a project to help transform a community institution. Through their Legacy Projects students have worked on issues around reentry, veterans discharge, pardons, public defenders, evictions, immigration, domestic violence and constitutional rights.

Getting Nominated

Incoming students must be nominated — and cannot apply directly — to participate in the Leadership Honors Program. Qualifications for consideration for acceptance into the LHP are a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.7, a minimum score of 159 on the Law School Admissions Test (or equivalent GRE or JD-Next score) and demonstrated leadership potential. Students must be in the full-time J.D. program. These qualifications do not guarantee acceptance into the program due to limited spots available in each class.

Designated Nominators are:

1. Designated Alumni Nominators drawn from our distinguished School of Law alumni;
2. Representatives from undergraduate institutions selected to be Designated Nominator Schools, and;
3. Dean-designated Nominators.

Interested students who do not have a Designated Nominator should contact the University of Dayton School of Law's Office of Admissions at lawinfo@udayton.edu or 937-229-3555.

Students who are nominated for the Leadership Honors Program must also apply for admission to the School of Law. Please note that a prospective applicant may gain admission into the School of Law without being accepted into the Leadership Honors Program.

Please nominate students by using the form below.