Employment Experiences:

Forty-two percent of the new class has full-time employment experience which may have solidified their decision to attend law school. In addition to their many summer internships, our class includes a broad experience base and is summarized in part as follows: paralegals, a case clerk, a staff member for the Center for Ethics and Public Service, a special assistant to the Governor’s Office, a press secretary for U.S. congressmen, the Chief Deputy Commissioner of Revenue, a clerk in the DEA Office, a clerk for the County Justice Court, an administrative office specialist for a state health department, a staff assistant to a U.S. senator, a legislative correspondent for a U.S. senator, a Director in the U.S. State Department, an intern for the Commission on Children and Families, a research fellow for the Council of Large Public Housing, a staff member for a women’s resource center, a corporate legal compliance officer, a victim’s advocate for State’s Attorney’s Office, teachers, an economist for the Texas Workforce Commission, a program specialist to the Commonwealth’s Attorneys Office, a bank teller, an assistant for the House Armed Services Committee, an intern for an international foundation, a counselor for Kids Across America, a guest services representative for Colonial Williamsburg, a bank representative, Peace Corps volunteer, research interns for an institute, an associate in a consulting firm, an engineer, a TV entertainment production coordinator, company production coordinator, a newspaper reporter, an accounts receivable manager for a bank, a document control specialist, an outreach specialist for National AIDS Fund, an assistant manager for a restaurant, a college assistant admission officer, a college research analyst, a Congregational pastor, an archaeologist, a newspaper editor, a commercial analyst for a bank, a program coordinator for the Justice Project, AmeriCorps volunteer, a university tennis instructor, a governmental affairs consultant, a title company assistant, and a staff consultant for an international human resources consulting firm. We are fortunate to have members in our class with military service. We have nine – three lieutenants from the U.S. Army, three captains from the U.S. Army, one E3 from the U.S. Marine Corps, one lieutenant from the U.S. Coast Guard and one E6 from the U.S. Navy. Four are attending law school under the auspices of the highly selective Funded Legal Education Program. We believe that these diverse work experiences will add to the depth of class discussions.

Community Service Experiences:

Our class has been building a record of community service which will serve as a foundation for their careers as citizen lawyers. Their volunteer activities and/or the organizations that benefitted from them are mentoring, tutoring, a camp for chronically ill children, Special Olympics, soup kitchens, food banks, AmeriCorps, inner-city ministries, hospitals, both acute care and psychiatric, animal shelters, legal clinics, model U.N, museums, a Department of Social Services volunteer on child placements, homeless shelters, Big Siblings, migrant aid workers, domestic violence shelters, sexual assault victims’ services, Boys and Girls Clubs, Best Buddies, American Red Cross, detention centers, literacy programs, elementary schools, nursing homes, riding therapy, Habitat for Humanity, AIDS clinics, Sunday school teaching, alternate spring breaks, crisis centers, campus ministries and high school coaches. Also, they have volunteered their services as an EMS trauma attendant and emergency medical technician. Six of our class members have served as missionaries for one to two years and others have served as missionaries in trips of several weeks. Our class has five Eagle Scouts and a Girl Scout leader. Eleven class members were selected as teaching assistants, eighteen as research assistants and ten as residence assistants. In sum, our class has a marvelous record of sharing their gifts with others. One can only contemplate the number of people helped and lives changed by these members of the class.

Leadership:

Leadership has been demonstrated by the Class of 2010 on the campus as well. Six have served as presidents of their fraternities, one as a vice president of his fraternity, one as president of the Interfraternity Council, one as vice president of the Interfraternity Council and one as co-president of his dorm council. Three have served as presidents of their sororities and one as vice president of her sorority. In addition, the class members include a President and Vice President of Pan Hellenic Councils. Eleven were resident advisors. Student governments were ably led by our class members including seventeen student senators, four senior class presidents, one senior class vice president, two student body presidents, three student body vice presidents, four dorm or residence hall presidents, a vice president of the Hall Council, and three chiefs of staff to the president of the Student Government Association and other leaders in student governments and councils. One serves as the student representative to a college’s Board of Trustees. Campus organizational leadership was evidenced by a president of an international relations organization, president of a model U.N., four as president of Phi Alpha Delta or their pre-law club, and service on numerous student advisory boards. The class includes three editors of college newspapers and five editors or co-editors of college journals. College admission offices have been fortunate to have the class members recruiting new students working in freshman orientation positions, as college ambassadors, as tour guides and on admission committees.