TAMPA BAY, FLA, — Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus recognized students for their achievements during the spring honors convocation on March 18. Dylan Sanchez was presented the Leadership Achievement Award. Sanchez and Julisa Inoa each received the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award.
The Leadership Achievement Award acknowledges those students who have consistently, comprehensively, and effectively provided leadership in a variety of capacities. The award is intended to be the culmination of the recipient’s participation in leadership activities at Cooley.
The Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award is given to selected graduating students based on academic accomplishments, professionalism and ethics, leadership, extracurricular activities, and post-graduation plans. The recipients are selected by the Scholarship and Awards Committee of the Cooley Alumni Association. Recipients are presented with a diploma frame from the law school.
Sanchez is a native of Charlotte, NC. At Cooley, he served as president and historian for Phi Delta Phi international legal honor society; interim managing manuscript editor and executive manuscript editor for Law Review; senator-at-large and a 2L senator on the Student Bar Association, and treasurer of the Mock Trial Board.
Inoa hales from Hillsborough County, Florida, and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology at the University of South Forida. While at Cooley, she served two terms as president of the Hispanic Organization of Legal Advocates and six consecutive terms as a senator-at-large for the Student Bar Association. She also served as public relations officer for Cooley’s chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers and as a senior intern in the Cooley’s Debt Relief Clinic. Her academic success earned her a position as a Dean’s Fellow. Inoa’s commitment to service is reflected in her active participation in the Young Adult Ministry through Alive Church and her volunteer work with Metropolitan Ministries. She was recently selected for the United States Air Force JAG Corps—an honor extended to only about five percent of applicants nationwide.
Cooley Law School student Dylan Sanchez received the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award during the law school’s honors convocation, held at its Tampa Bay campus on March 18, 2026.
Cooley Law School student Dylan Sanchez was presented with the Leadership Achievement Award during the law school’s honors convocation, held at its Tampa Bay campus on March 18, 2026.
Cooley Law School student Julisa Inoa received the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award during the law school’s honors convocation, held at its Tampa Bay campus on March 18, 2026.
