Mercer Law Associate Professor Sarah Gerwig-Moore has been selected as the 2013 Shanara Gilbert Emerging Clinician Award winner by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education.

Gerwig-Moore joined Mercer Law School as a professor in 2006 and soon after established the Habeas Project, the only pro bono effort in Georgia to focus on non-capital post-conviction cases. She and her students have handled 38 cases in the Georgia Supreme Court since 2006, and in total she has been counsel of record, co-counsel or collaborated in that court in nearly 100 cases. Additionally, she teaches in Mercer Law’s Public Interest Practicum, is chair of the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission and serves on the board of directors of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative.