The John Joseph Moakley Charitable Foundation Public Service Award was awarded to attorneys James F. Linnehan and Jeanne M. Hession at the Foundation’s Seventh Annual Scholarship Award Ceremony on Thursday, May 29, 2008, at Suffolk University Law School.
  
Twenty-eight scholarships were presented this year to students pursuing higher education at the undergraduate or graduate level and for vocational education. More than $110,000 in scholarships will be awarded.

The John Joseph Moakley Charitable Foundation awards scholarships on a competitive basis each spring to successful applicants who demonstrate financial need, acceptance to a post-secondary vocational education program or to an institution of higher education for undergraduate or graduate study, and a desire to pursue public or charitable service as a vocation or as an avocation.