McKaia Dykema ’23
McKaia Dykema ’23 will join the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association Board in July 2025. She’s an associate attorney for Kennedy & Graven focusing on municipal law, with prior experience working as a manager of legal advocacy and legislative research for the National League of Cities, as well as various positions with other Minnesota cities.
During law school, Dykema clerked with Campbell-Knutson and externed with the City of Golden Valley, primarily supporting the Just Deeds project; served as a Student Bar Association representative; received the 2023 International Municipal Lawyers Association’s Charles Thompson Jr. Local Government Law scholarship; and graduated summa cum laude.