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Third-year law student Renee Redshirt has recently been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2026 Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys (AzSHA) Scholars Program. Redshirt was selected for her background in public health, commitment to health equity and vision for the practice of health law in underserved communities.
The AzSHA Scholars Program, held in collaboration with Arizona Law and Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, recognizes exceptional third-year health law students. Each law school selects three scholars who participate in AzSHA Board meetings, in-person and virtual programming and the annual AzSHA conference. Scholars also have the opportunity to contribute to AzSHA’s blog, further engaging with critical healthcare legal issues.
Third-year students Braydon Mathis and Jack Dias join Redshirt as Arizona Law’s AzSHA Scholars.
Redshirt brings a decade of public health experience to her legal studies, having earned her Master of Public Health before law school, including work in behavioral health, injury and substance use prevention research; community assessment; and federal policy coordination. Her path to law school was shaped early by her upbringing as Diné on the Navajo Nation, where she witnessed firsthand how tribal, federal and state systems, along with history, impacted access to health care.
“In our culture, language, land and kinship relationships are inseparable from well-being,” says Redshirt. “That background shaped my understanding of health law as a multidisciplinary field encompassing hospitals, regulation and compliance, as well as the policies, institutions and systems that influence health outcomes and access to care.”
This opportunity is made possible through the ongoing efforts of the Health Law & Policy Program, led by Faculty Director Tara Sklar, which promotes the scholarship among health law students, guides applicants through the process and nominates finalists to AzSHA, a partnership now entering its third year.
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