Diversity in Law

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law University of Wisconsin Law School, 2011 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Injustice and inequality. What does “diversity, equity and inclusion” mean to you? It means that opportunity is not provided or limited by immutable characteristics. How did you get involved in DEI work, […]

Nguyen Law LLC, IUPUI Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2006 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I became interested in the law while taking an undergraduate course at IU Bloomington on education and society. I decided to enter the legal profession because I wanted to influence policy to help […]

IU Kelley School of Business – IUPUI Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1991 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Back when I was a child, my parents made me aware of the importance of legal and civil rights, which emerged from the civil rights movement. In their minds, the law was […]

Senior judge Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1982 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I have always had a concern for victims of bullying, oppression and cheating. It originated with my scouting experience of Native American lore. Learning the history of the Trail of Tears, the Sand Creek Massacre, […]

Hensley Legal Group P.C. University of Iowa College of Law, 2016 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? The history of law has always fascinated me. As a Catholic school kid, class lessons were intertwined with parables and the prevailing legal principles of their times. Central to these parables was a stark sense […]

Indiana Legal Services Inc. Seton Hall Law School, 1975 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Actually, it was the president of Seton Hall University, Monsignor John Fleming, who encouraged me to apply to Seton Hall Law School. Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Central Ward, the predominate African American ward, the only […]

Church Church Hittle + Antrim Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1982 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I wanted to help people. No more complicated than that. I was the first person in my family to go to college. I grew up watching lawyer TV shows: Perry Mason and […]

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1995 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I decided to enter the legal profession because a close friend who always wanted to be a lawyer and I spent an afternoon talking about what being a lawyer would mean and what […]

Penske Entertainment Corp. Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2002 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer at a very young age. I used to emcee church programs and play the role of Jesus in church plays, and the members of the […]

Ice Miller LLP Valparaiso University School of Law, 2013 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I originally decided to enter the legal profession because I wanted to be an NFL agent. I love sports and wanted a career that involved sports. At that time, I believe you needed an advanced degree to become […]

Imprint Legal Group DePaul University College of Law, 2012 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I’m the first attorney in my family and had no ambition to enter the legal profession (actually, my father forbade it). But at Northwestern University — after I flunked out of pre-med — I was mentored by […]

(IL photo/Eric Learned) Ice Miller LLP University of Michigan Law School, 1980 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I was propelled by something inside me that was a deep sense of fairness. I was drawn to the law as a system of rights and the possibility of ordering and improving society using […]