Alumni Spotlight

Heather Gilbert ’12 has combined her skills in American Sign Language, with her J.D., to create a thriving Roseville, Minn., law firm. Gilbert appears to be the only private practice attorney in the state who is also a court-certified sign language interpreter. And now with the help of some of the school’s on the-job-training programs, she’s …

Mitchell Hamline alums find niche serving deaf community

Mitchell Hamline School of Law represents the combination of two institutions that together have been a part of the legal picture in Minnesota for more than 150 years. But here’s another Mitchell Hamline combination to consider: Bill Manning ’78 and Ruth Mickelsen ’81. Manning is an alum of Hamline Law who later served on Hamline …

Another kind of Mitchell Hamline combination

It would be hard to find a family with deeper connections to Mitchell Hamline and its predecessor institutions than the Klases. Dan and Mary Louise Klas ’60 started at St. Paul College of Law and graduated from William Mitchell College of Law. Barbara Klas ’91, their daughter, is a Mitchell grad. And their nephew Bob …

Klas family connections run deep at Mitchell Hamline

Despite graduating from Hamline’s part-time weekend JD program, Tamara Cabán-Ramirez is hardly a weekend warrior. As a mother, poet, and the head of her own criminal defense and immigration law firm, to say she works eight days a week would be far more accurate. The key to this juggling act, she says, is “always being open …

Tamara Cabán-Ramirez ’04: Poetic Justice