USD Board of Trustees Member Virginia Nelson ’79 (JD) & USD Law Alumna Audrey Surridge ’17 (JD) Named SDBJ 2024 Top Nonprofit Board Leaders
SAN DIEGO (June 5, 2024) – Congratulations to University of San Diego (USD) Board of Trustees Member Virginia Nelson ‘79 (JD), and USD Law alumna Audrey Surridge ‘17 (JD) for being named 2024 Top Nonprofit Board Leaders of Influence by the San Diego Business Journal.
Nelson serves as the vice chair on the USD Board of Trustees and is an Emeritus member of USD School of Law’s Board of Visitors. She is an active supporter of multiple scholarships and initiatives across the USD campus, as well as many other nonprofit organizations focused on access to justice, collective philanthropy and legal education in the San Diego community. Nelson, is also an Adjunct Professor at USD School of Law and is very proud to be featured as a Board Leader of Influence with her former student, Audrey Surridge.
Surridge, an attorney at Fisher Phillips LLP, is the current president of Lawyers Club, the largest affinity bar organization in San Diego. A nonprofit dedicated to advancing the status of women in the law and society, Lawyers Club develops and mentors female leaders in the San Diego community and promotes pay equity and workplace civility through its various initiatives, practical programming, and events.
About the University of San Diego School of Law
Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.
USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.