Category: Alumni Focus

  • Sheri Soltes, ’84, has put her legal education and experience to an unusual use: training rescued shelter dogs to be service animals and companions for disabled people.
  • Scott Dahl, ’88, is the new inspector general at the Smithsonian Institution, whose collections—and zoo!—he has loved since he was a child.
  • Allison Lerner, ’89, inspector general for the National Science Foundation, has found meaning in a legal career that’s taken her from Washington, D.C., to Antarctica and back.
  • Oliver Luck, '87, earned his JD while playing professional football with the Houston Oilers before going on to politics and a business career and finally returning to West Virginia to head its athletics department.
  • As senior litigation counsel for Shell Oil, environmental lawyer Cisselon Nichols Hurd, ’91, works on cases that shape the future of industry.
  • David Hall, ’69, executive director of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, turned his youthful passion for helping the poor into a distinguished and influential public-interest legal career.
  • Dan Mangis’s career as a Foreign Service officer has taken him far from Austin to Baghdad’s Green Zone.
  • Lulu Flores, ’80, was recently named National Latina Lawyer of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association, a new height in a career defined by public service.
  • Scott Keller, ’07, is the latest Law School alumnus to clerk on the Supreme Court, under Justice Anthony Kennedy.
  • Julia Massimino, ’99, followed her interest in legislative lawyering to a position as chief of staff for California congressman Howard Berman.
  • Father T.J. Martinez, '96
    As president of Cristo Rey Jesuit, the Rev. TJ Martinez, '96, prepares underprivileged children for a better future
  • Regina Rogoff, ’73, Chief Executive Officer of the People’s Community Clinic in Austin, Texas