{"id":22335,"date":"2023-03-30T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=22335"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:04:21","slug":"judge-sarah-wheelock-to-deliver-mitchell-hamline-commencement-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/judge-sarah-wheelock-to-deliver-mitchell-hamline-commencement-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sarah Wheelock to deliver Mitchell Hamline commencement address"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22336\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22336\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22336\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/03\/Wheelock-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Sarah Wheelock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Judge Sarah Wheelock, who made history in 2021 when she was the first Native American ever named to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, will give the address at Mitchell Hamline\u2019s commencement on June 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitchell Hamline is doing important work to expand who has access to legal education, and I\u2019m excited to honor that work and help congratulate the newest members of the legal profession,\u201d said Wheelock, a member of the Meskwaki Nation (federally recognized as the Sac &amp; Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa).<\/p>\n<p>Wheelock has been a longtime friend of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s, having taught as an adjunct and also engaging often with students to discuss legal careers. She recently spoke at the annual banquet of the Mitchell Hamline Law Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Wheelock is a trailblazer in Minnesota and we\u2019re thrilled she\u2019ll be part of our commencement exercises,\u201d said Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Anthony Niedwiecki. \u201cI know our students will be inspired by her story and reflections on the calling that is the legal profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before being named a Court of Appeals judge, Wheelock previously served as legal counsel for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and an appellate judge for the White Earth Band of Chippewa Court of Appeals. She\u2019s a past vice president of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association and a member of the National Native American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Sarah Wheelock, who made history in 2021 when she was the first Native American ever named to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, will give the address at Mitchell Hamline\u2019s commencement on June 3. \u201cMitchell Hamline is doing important work to expand who has access to legal education, and I\u2019m excited to honor that work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/judge-sarah-wheelock-to-deliver-mitchell-hamline-commencement-address\/\" class=\"more-link\">Judge Sarah Wheelock to deliver Mitchell Hamline commencement address<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5668,"featured_media":22337,"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":[3,5,77],"tags":[53,47,577,389,59,576],"class_list":{"0":"post-22335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"category-office-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","10":"tag-anthony-niedwiecki","11":"tag-commencement","12":"tag-court-of-appeals","13":"tag-judge","14":"tag-native-americans","15":"tag-sarah-wheelock","16":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335","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=22335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}