{"id":17759,"date":"2021-09-11T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17759"},"modified":"2021-09-11T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:33:56","slug":"five-mitchell-hamline-alums-honored-with-minnesota-lawyer-diversity-inclusion-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/five-mitchell-hamline-alums-honored-with-minnesota-lawyer-diversity-inclusion-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Mitchell Hamline alums honored with Minnesota Lawyer Diversity &amp; Inclusion Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17760 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/09\/DiversityInclusion-Logo-235x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/09\/DiversityInclusion-Logo-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/09\/DiversityInclusion-Logo.png 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>Five Mitchell Hamline alumni are among the 14 individuals and four organizations being recognized by Minnesota Lawyer for its <a href=\"https:\/\/minnlawyer.com\/diversity-inclusion\/current-honorees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Diversity &amp; Inclusion<\/a> awards. Recipients are being honored for \u201csignificantly advancing diversity, inclusion and the dignity of all people in Minnesota\u2019s legal profession and in communities in which exceptional legal work impacts justice for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 Diversity &amp; Inclusion Awards (Mitchell Hamline alumni)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><strong>Jill Kehaulani Esch \u201903<\/strong>, Minnesota Ombudsperson for American Indian Families<\/li>\n<li><strong>Connie Lahn \u201996<\/strong>, Barnes &amp; Thornburg<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sonja Dunnwald Peterson \u201985<\/strong>, Disability Law Center<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice Silkey \u201986<\/strong>, Emerita Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law<\/li>\n<li><strong>Judge Sophia Vuelo \u201998<\/strong>, Ramsey County District Court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honorees will be recognized at an event on Oct. 7, 2021, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Mitchell Hamline alumni are among the 14 individuals and four organizations being recognized by Minnesota Lawyer for its 2021 Diversity &amp; Inclusion awards. Recipients are being honored for \u201csignificantly advancing diversity, inclusion and the dignity of all people in Minnesota\u2019s legal profession and in communities in which exceptional legal work impacts justice for all.\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/five-mitchell-hamline-alums-honored-with-minnesota-lawyer-diversity-inclusion-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Five Mitchell Hamline alums honored with Minnesota Lawyer Diversity &amp; Inclusion Awards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5668,"featured_media":17761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,5],"tags":[258,28,36,256,79,259,257,171],"class_list":{"0":"post-17759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alumni","8":"category-features","9":"category-news","10":"tag-alice-silkey","11":"tag-alumni","12":"tag-award","13":"tag-connie-lahn","14":"tag-jill-esch","15":"tag-minnesota-lawyer","16":"tag-sonja-dunnwald-peterson","17":"tag-sophia-vuelo","18":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}