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Courtroom Artist Contest

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: The NJSBF State Mock Trial Championship Finals will be held on March 28, 2024 – 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick. The snow date is April 5, 2024.

Encourage your high school students to participate in the Foundation’s 2023-2024 Courtroom Artist Contest, which is held in conjunction with the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s Vincent J. Apruzzese High School Mock Trial Competition.  This competition gives creative students an opportunity to stretch their artistic muscles while sketching their school’s mock trial team in action.

Questions

For more information, please contact Ashley Emerson at aemerson@njsbf.org.

More About our Courtroom Artist Workshop Leaders & Judges

Aggie Whelan Kenny: Ms. Kenny is known for her coverage of 9/11 responders and long term coverage of the US Supreme Court. She has been a courtroom artist for over 40 years and is an Emmy award winner for her work on the Mitchell-Stans trial (1974) for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. For more about Aggie Kenny click here.

Elizabeth Williams: Ms. Williams is an illustrator, courtroom artist and author.  Her work has appeared on the cover of major news publications including USA Today, the New York times and The Wallstreet Journal. She is co-author of The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art, a history of American courtroom sketch artistry.  For more about Elizabeth Williams click here.

Congratulations to the 2024 Winners!

This year, 23 schools joined the competition. The winning artwork was selected from 109 entries. Thank you to all of the artistically talented students who participated in this year’s contest.

1st Place
Yunfan Tian
North Hunterdon High School

2nd Place (tie)
Aarthi Kondra
North Hunterdon High School

2nd Place (tie)
Fenne Rudgers
Hunterdon County Polytech

3rd Place
Lyndaura Freitas
Dwight Morrow High School

Honorable Mention
Finley Decktor
North Hunterdon High School

Honorable Mention
Aarthi Kondra
North Hunterdon High School

Honorable Mention
Victoria Madera Rivera
Somerville High School

Honorable Mention
Kieran McClaskey
New Milford High School