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Mr. Brent Drenon (JD ’21), winner of the 2020 graduate student election, received his JD degree from Howard in 2021.  He was a Derrick Bell Scholarship recipient and an Edmund & M. Pioleau Scholarship recipient, and he was on the Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review.  Mr. Drenon also holds a bachelor's degree in business administration in legal studies from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he was a President’s Merit Scholar, made the Dean’s List, and played Division I football.  As a student at Howard law, Mr. Drenon served internships with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the D.C. Public Defender Service, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York, New York.  Currently, he works as an associate for Winston & Strawn LLP, an international law firm.  Mr. Drenon will serve a one-year term.