Alumna Alexis Fulton ('25) is a clinical fellow at Florida State University College of Law through a fellowship with the Borchard Center on Law and Aging, where she established the Elder Domestic Violence Assistance Project within the Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic. Fulton also serves as a staff attorney (pending bar admission) with Legal Services of North Florida, representing elder survivors of domestic violence and abuse primarily in family law matters.
While in law school at Florida State University, Fulton was in both the International Human Rights Advocacy Clinic and the Elder Law Clinic. She served as a Certified Legal Intern for the Victims’ Rights Project and as the Law Student Pro Bono Coordinator at Legal Services of North Florida. As a research assistant for the Elder Law Clinic, she authored the Elder Domestic Violence Benchbook for the Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator, designed as a statewide judicial resource.
Fulton has been recognized for her commitment to public interest law with the 2025 CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student Award and 2025 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award for the Gulf Region.
Claude Denson Pepper paved the way for elder justice. In 1928, Senator Pepper began his distinguished career of public service in the Florida House of Representatives. In 1936, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 14 years. In the Senate, he served on numerous committees and chaired both the Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education and the Committee on Patents. Among other groundbreaking legislation efforts, Senator Pepper led the passage of an amendment creating state offices to prevent abuse of elderly persons and was an author of sweeping reforms to protect residents of American nursing homes. He held hearings on the need for national guardianship reform and was influential in the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic honors Claude Pepper’s legacy by staying committed to serving the needs of our growing elderly population.