3L Amie Mbye is the inaugural recipient of the Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75 Endowed Law Scholarship. The Scholarship was established with a generous gift from Syracuse University Trustee and College of Law Board of Advisors Member Richard M. Alexander L’82, a partner at Arnold & Porter, and his wife Emily, to honor the Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75.
Mbye is the Diversity & Inclusion Chair and Computers Editor for the Syracuse Law Review. She is also a member of the Black Law Student Association and the Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society’s Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team, which advanced from the regional round of the Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial competition in 2023 and 2024.
She has spent two summers as a Law Clerk in Barclay Damon LLP’s Syracuse office. After graduation in May, she plans on taking the patent bar and returning to Barclay Damon as a first-year associate with the Intellectual Property practice group.
Mbye holds an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Agnes Scott College.
The Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75 Endowed Law Scholarship provides Syracuse Law students with the education and cultural context to enable them to carry forward the legacy of Judge McKee, who has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for more than 27 years.
Judge McKee graduated from the College of Law in 1975 magna cum laude and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Justinian Honorary Law Society. He began his legal career in private practice in Philadelphia, PA, before entering public service as an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then served as Deputy City Solicitor for Philadelphia, as a lecturer at Rutgers Law School, and as General Counsel for the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Judge McKee first took the bench in 1984 on the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. After a decade of service, he was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by President William J. Clinton in 1994, receiving his confirmation and commission later that same year. Judge McKee served as the court’s Chief Judge from 2010 to 2016.
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