Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., will deliver the commencement address at the 2006 School of Law commencement Sunday.
This year 177 graduates will participate in the ceremony at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts at 1 p.m.
Blumenauer, who represents the third Congressional District in Portland, began his political career as undergraduate at Lewis and Clark College, spearheading an unsuccessful attempt to lower Oregon’s voting age and the successful effort to lower the national voting age in 1970.
Meritorious Service Awards will be given to outgoing Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson and to Phyllis Barkhurst, an advocate of halting violence against women. The awards are given by the law school each year to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to legal education and the law.
The graduating Class of 2006 selected Al Kim to give the class speech at the ceremony.
Buses will be available to transport graduates and their guests between the Hult Center and the Knight Law Center. Buses will run every few minutes from the end of the commencement ceremony until 5:15 p.m