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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog > Student Affairs > Awards > Albert Patterson Award

Albert Patterson Award

This award is given annually to the outstanding freshmen criminal justice student. The award is named in honor of Albert Patterson, a 1927 graduate of the Cumberland School of Law. On June 18, 1954, Albert Patterson, the newly elected Attorney General for the State of Alabama, was shot to death as he left his law office to prevent him from fulfilling his campaign promise of ridding the state of the rampant corruption and vice that proliferated in the Phoenix City, Alabama, area. The award is given to honor his memory and sacrifice.