Bakersfield, Calif.—The Law Offices of Young Wooldridge has named Stockdale High School senior defensive back/running back J.D. Reed as its 2008 Hometown Sports Scholar Athlete of the Year.

With a 4.5 GPA, Reed was selected from among 12 other scholar athletes who took home weekly honors throughout the season. Reed, who also plays baseball, plans to major in finance and hopes to attend Arizona State or the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

In addition to Reed’s individual plaque and monetary award, Young Wooldridge presented Stockdale High School a perpetual plaque containing the names of all Hometown Sports Scholar Athletes of the Year.

About Young Wooldridge:
The Law Offices of Young Wooldridge LLP, founded in 1939, is a full-service law firm representing business and corporate clients, public agencies and individuals, in a wide range of legal matters. The firm provides legal services in the areas of personal injury, catastrophic brain injuries, wrongful death, defective products, estate planning, business and business transactions, employment law, oil and gas law, insurance disputes, agriculture and water law, and condemnation and eminent domain. A Group Legal Services program serves more than 350,000 credit union members throughout Kern County. A Family Law Mediation Center helps guide disputing parties towards resolution in a process that can save them money and is less stressful than courtroom proceedings.