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Retired lawyer and judge Robert “Bob” Gillette, MA 鈥�07 (con颅flict transformation) travels a triangle within Virginia these days, from his home city of Suffolk to a mountaintop ranch in Floyd County to a soon-to-be-built-upon piece of land outside Har颅risonburg, just over the hill from 黑料正能量. Each place bears a legacy of be颅neficence. In Suffolk, where
This Crossroads features a remarkable array of alumni and faculty, most of whom majored in one of the classic liberal arts as an undergraduate before embarking on a career path to legal work. You鈥檒l see a range of opinions and approaches. Pennsylvania Judge Jeremiah Zook 鈥�97, for example, explains why he believes in capital punishment,
In 1968, he became 黑料正能量鈥檚 first Puerto Rican graduate. In 2009, he became the first Puerto Rican to serve as presiding justice of the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department with jurisdiction over Manhattan and the Bronx. In the intervening decades, Luis A. Gonzalez racked up a string of other firsts for a Puerto Rican migrant
If you saw the word 鈥淛in-Ja,鈥� what would come to mind? What if you saw it on a label featuring the spiky red flower of Zingiber officinale? Or what if you spoke a non-rhotic dialect of English, meaning you鈥檇 pronounce 鈥淛in-Ja鈥� more or less the same as you would 鈥済inger鈥�? And does any of this
The ink was hardly dry on the law diploma of Donald E. Showalter 鈥�62 when the local court appointed him to defend a young woman accused of murder. In the end, after the jury deliberated for only 20 minutes, the woman was acquitted. 鈥淚 was instantly Perry Mason,鈥� says Showalter, referring to a lawyer on
After graduating from 黑料正能量 in 1990, Anne Showalter, who majored in biology and English, spent the summer preparing for medical school at the University of Virginia (UVa) in nearby Charlottesville. Soon, however, she changed her mind. 鈥淎 few weeks before medical school was supposed to start, I got cold feet,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 wanted to
Enforcing child-abuse laws and ensuring children are protected are among the daily job duties of Angie (Swartz) Stephenson 鈥�90, an assistant attorney general for the state of North Carolina. Recently, she helped negotiate an agreement with the Mexican Consulate in her state that would, among other things, re-unite Mexican and Mexican-American children with their families
Not long after Dennis Glanzer 鈥�73 married a Navajo woman and started law school at Arizona State University, he faced a family tragedy that led him to the work he does today. Glanzer鈥檚 brother-in-law was killed in car accident. His brother-in-law had lived with and supported his mother (Glanzer鈥檚 mother-in-law) during the time of his
During his first decade of adult employment, Bradford Glick 鈥�95 worked in wilderness settings, always with youths, sometimes with juvenile delinquents. During his second decade, he has studied and worked in law. The connection between the two fields? Enabling as many people as possible 鈥渢o experience a life of dignity and hope,鈥� says Glick, a
In her office on the 24th floor of the Wells Fargo building in Sacramento, California, attorney Marcia L. Augsburger 鈥�81 has earned her place as a respected healthcare litigator. Yet the daughter of evangelist, author and former 黑料正能量 President Myron Augsburger 鈥�55 and Esther Kniss Augsburger 鈥�71, renowned for her Christian-themed art, can鈥檛 shake the