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Judge Peter Reyes ’97 is committed to diversifying legal profession

Posted: January 22, 2020
Judge Peter Reyes
Reyes: ‘I want to put other people in a position to succeed’ By Emily Gurnon When he stood before an audience at the American Bar Association’s mid-year meeting in Las Vegas in January 2019, Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Peter M. Reyes Jr. ’97 (WMCL) decided it was time to share a story he had …

Judge Peter Reyes ’97 is committed to diversifying legal profession

Judge JaPaul Harris ’03 aims to inspire low-income teens with his example

Posted: January 16, 2020
Judge JaPaul Harris
Harris: ‘Working with underserved people is a passion of mine’ By Sherri Hildebrandt Growing up in public housing, receiving public benefits, his mother working as a teacher’s aide, JaPaul Harris ’03 (HUSL) didn’t know any lawyers—let alone judges—as a youngster in upstate New York. Now a district court judge in Minnesota’s Second Judicial District, Harris …

Judge JaPaul Harris ’03 aims to inspire low-income teens with his example

Students and alums gather for the Tea for Women in Law

Posted: April 26, 2019
Mitchell Hamline students, alumni, and friends gathered recently for the Justice Esther M. Tomljanovich ’55 Tea for Women in Law and CLE. In addition to having a great time networking with old friends and new, attendees also helped raise funds for the Women in Law Scholarship Fund. You can see a slideshow of pictures from …

Students and alums gather for the Tea for Women in Law

Alums honored with Mitchell Hamline Law Review awards

Posted: April 1, 2019
The Mitchell Hamline Law Review has honored two alums for their work on the student-edited legal journal during their time in law school and for the work they’ve done in their careers since. Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright ’06 and Victor Vieth ’87 each received a 2019 Wallace-Lerner Award for Excellence in Leadership during the law …

Alums honored with Mitchell Hamline Law Review awards

Family’s experience with Legal Aid attorney inspires student’s work in Child Protection Clinic

Posted: January 1, 2019
When Scotty Ducharme was a boy in International Falls, Minn., he and his four siblings sought legal protection from their father. Ducharme remembers writing affidavits and talking with the police; his older siblings testified in court. It was a frustrating and difficult process that would rule Ducharme’s relationship with his father until he became an …

Family’s experience with Legal Aid attorney inspires student’s work in Child Protection Clinic