Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell Hamline Alumni

Class Notes

Molly Nephew ’15

Posted: February 6, 2026
Molly Nephew ’15 was promoted in April 2025 within Stryker Corporation’s in-house legal department to Director, Employment Counsel. She will continue to provide management-side advising on a broad range of employment issues for Stryker’s Trauma and Extremities, Spine, and Orthopedic Technologies divisions and Corporate Finance across the U.S. and Stryker’s Global Quality Operations in Minnesota, …

Molly Nephew ’15

Raoul Shah ’17

Posted: January 16, 2026
Raoul Shah ’17 has been promoted to partner at Robins Kaplan LLP, effective January 1, 2026. Raoul is a trial attorney in the Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Civil Rights Group. He has tried more than two dozen cases to verdict as a first-chair attorney, and obtained meaningful recoveries for clients harmed by negligence, medical …

Raoul Shah ’17

Hon. Todd Schoffelman ’94

Posted: January 16, 2026
On December 3, 2025, Minnesota Chief Justice Natalie Hudson surprised Senior Judge John Guthmann ’80 and Judge Todd Schoffelman ’94 with presentation of the Chief Justice Award at the annual Minnesota Conference of Judges. The award was given for “exemplary leadership and advocacy in strengthening the Judicial and Court Staff Safety and Privacy Act.” In …

Hon. Todd Schoffelman ’94

Hon. John Guthmann ’80

Posted: January 16, 2026
On December 3, 2025, Minnesota Chief Justice Natalie Hudson surprised Senior Judge John Guthmann ’80 and Judge Todd Schoffelman ’94 with presentation of the Chief Justice Award at the annual Minnesota Conference of Judges. The award was given for “exemplary leadership and advocacy in strengthening the Judicial and Court Staff Safety and Privacy Act.” In …

Hon. John Guthmann ’80

Jill Kehaulani Esch ’03

Posted: January 16, 2026
Jill Kehaulani Esch ’03, the Ombudsperson with the Office of Ombudsperson for American Indian Families (the only independent state agency of its kind in The Nation), was awarded the first ever US Ombudsman Association Member of the Year Award at the 2025 USOA Annual Conference in Vail, Colorado. Class of 2003

Jill Kehaulani Esch ’03