Because we get to know the students from the first day they walk into our campus, we are able to really be flexible and work with them into reaching what they want to do. We provide individualized experience for externships and clinics, I work with students one on one to try to find a placement that's the best fit for them. That might be something that they're interested in personally, that might be a particular skill set. But I meet with all of the students before we pick a placement, before we work with them at the clinic, so that I really get to know them before they even walk into the office.
We're here to make you successful. That means my door is open. Every day a student is in my office at some point in the day with a question, with a thought, or just to sit and talk because they need a moment. They need a mentor. They've got a question or a problem. And that's what we're here for, and that's the same for every single professor in this college.
When I started law school, I wanted to mainly do criminal law, but I also wanted to keep my options open and explore other opportunities that I might not have even thought about before I started law school. So I started with a general practice firm, got a lot of great experience. I worked for the Court of Appeals. I worked for a very large prosecutor's office. I worked for the Department of Justice and the Ohio Attorney General's office, and all of those pushed me into the direction that I am now in my current position.
The reason that I love going to ONU Law is I always tell people that I wanted to be a hometown lawyer. And I didn't necessarily mean that I wanted to be a lawyer in my hometown, but I wanted to be a lawyer that people felt like they could approach with no matter what issue they were facing, that made them feel comfortable. And in order, I felt like, to pursue that goal and to be that person in my career, I had to choose a school that felt like a hometown law school. And that has been something that has been true every day that I've walked into these doors. It is very clear that I feel like I'm going to be prepared to make sure people feel welcome within the legal field, whatever way that they have to interact with it because I've had a law school that has made me feel the same way.
