Evening Student Profiles

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Rob Mobley, L’27

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mobley was assigned to United States Cyber Command J9 in August 2022 and is currently the Deputy Division Director for the Hard Targets Program Management Office, J9. Prior to this assignment, Lieutenant Colonel Mobley served as the Executive Officer to the Command Acquisition Executive and J9 Director, United States Cyber Command. Lieutenant Colonel Mobley commissioned into the United States Air Force in 2009 after having graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO as an acquisitions program manager. In 2012, Lieutenant Colonel Mobley was selected to become an Assistant Professor for Aerospace Studies at AFROTC Detachment 610, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. Lieutenant Colonel Mobley would hold the titles of Education Flight Commander and Operations Flight Commander while assigned to Detachment 610. In 2019, Lieutenant Colonel Mobley transitioned back to the United States Air Force Academy, CO as an Instructor (later Senior Instructor) of Geosciences, where he taught Geopolitics and World Cultural Geography courses.

Lieutenant Colonel Mobley holds a Bachelor of Science in Law from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Dakota, and a Master of Arts in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, Lieutenant Colonel Mobley researched geopolitics and queer migration under his advisor Dr. Adam Moore. He is currently enrolled in the Juris Doctor program at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. Lieutenant Colonel Mobley’s military education includes Air and Space Basic Course, Squadron Officer School, and Air Command and Staff College. Lieutenant Colonel Mobley is DAWIA Level II certified in program management. He also holds a PMP certification.

Kelly Heesch Sharbo, L’25

Kelly Heesch Sharbo is a proud Section 7 student at Georgetown Law, where she is focusing on the relationship between international relations, national security, and trade law. During the day, she serves as a Deputy Program Manager, managing a 200-person engineering and logistics services contract for the Department of the Navy. Kelly’s interests in the intersection of international relations and defense began before law school and, post law school, she plans to stay in the national security environment by supporting the legal and policy frameworks governing international trade, through International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) compliance in the private sector.

Kelly feels incredibly lucky to be studying at Georgetown Law, the leading school in the country for studying national security law, and one of the only schools with a course specifically focused on CFIUS. Above all, her favorite thing about Georgetown has been the people she’s met. The courses she has enjoyed the most have been taught by exceptionally down-to-earth and brilliant practitioners who are actively working in their field of instruction during the day and come to Georgetown at night to prepare students to tackle current issues on their first day as lawyers. Inside and outside the classroom, her incredible Section 7 classmates have become the best support system and friends, helping each other through the stress of law school, celebrating life achievements with each other, and getting together for fun wine tasting nights.

Any free time Kelly has from work and school is devoted to her family (baby, Lukas; husband, Jon; and rescue pup, Tilly), painting, traveling, exploring DC’s incredible and ever-evolving food scene, and volunteering with local nonprofits who focus on supporting women and families pursuing safe housing, good health, and financial independence as they navigate the challenges of poverty, homelessness, incarceration, and abusive environments.

Sean Murphy, L’ 26

Sean Murphy has been an US Air Force intelligence officer for the past thirteen years and has married to his wonderful wife Joanna for the last ten. They just welcomed their daughter Eleni in July. Sean has been stationed in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia and has experience supporting nuclear mission planning, B-52 bomber ops, joint special operations, and most recently diplomatic travel as the senior intelligence officer for Office of the President airlift. Sean also has four deployments with special operations that have been incredibly rewarding for him. He is currently assigned to the Pentagon, which keeps him in the D.C. area so that he can continue law school in the evenings. Sean has been involved with the Military Law Society (he’s the evening section Vice President) and National Security Law Society and their events. The most enjoyable part of Sean’s law school experience has been hanging out with his Section 7 classmates outside of class. Lastly, whenever he has a spare moment, you can find Sean learning Greek (his wife is first generation) or working on transliterating an ancestor’s Civil War letters into a book.

Sarah Phipps Sikka, L’26

Sarah Phipps Sikka graduated from UNC Chapel Hill where she majored in Sociology. Since then, she has worked at Cisco on their People & Communities team as an Employee Relations Consultant. At Georgetown, Sarah has enjoyed serving as a Peer Tutor and Peer Advisor. She also volunteered with the Southeast Louisiana Legal Services through the New Orleans Legal Alliance during spring break in 2023. Sarah comes from a big family. She is the middle child of five and has two older sisters and two younger brothers. In her free time, Sarah enjoys playing with her two kittens, Alfie and Willie or finding a new restaurant to try with her husband, G.

Darby Yeager, L’26

Darby joined the Evening Program after serving 13 years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and speechwriter. During the day, Darby works part-time for a family real estate business and interned at the Appellate Court of Maryland during her 2E year. In addition to being a veteran, she is a military spouse to a Navy doctor and mom to three kiddos and a dog. On campus, Darby is co-President of the Military Law Society and worked as a summer research associate for the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. In her (limited) free time, she enjoys any opportunity to be out on the water with her family around the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Darby loves chatting with prospective students and sharing how the flexibility of the GULC evening program can work for non-traditional law students like herself!

Katherine Hoops, L’25

Dr. Katherine Hoops is a mom of two (ages 9 and 4), an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and a faculty member in The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. She is a core faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions, where she leads the Clinical Programs and Practice team doing research, clinical program development, and education. Related to her research in violence and injury prevention and her clinical practice caring for critically ill and injured children, Katherine repeatedly witnessed patients who encountered legal barriers to health. When she learned more about medical legal partnerships like the Health Justice Alliance at Georgetown, she decided to pursue training in the law. With the mentorship of Professor Girard, she intends to develop a medical legal partnership program in her hospital after graduation. During her law school experience, Katherine has enjoyed being able to focus her curriculum on issues related to health and healthcare law as well as barriers to health such as poverty and inequity.

Maurice Roberson, L’ 25

Maurice is a Washington D.C. native, first generation law student, United States military veteran, and fourth year evening JD/Tax LL.M candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Maurice attended and graduated from the D.C. public school system in 2009, after which he went on to community college near West Virginia where he studied business administration.

In 2012, Maurice moved to Massachusetts where he enrolled in an automotive trade school and eventually joined the military. Maurice honorably served the nation for eight years, with a military career that spanned across two branches, multiple job specialties, and a deployment to the middle east. Following Maurice’s time in service, he enrolled in the University of Massachusetts-Boston where he studied Africana Studies, Human Rights, and Philosophy. In 2021, Maurice graduated number one in his class (Summa Cum Laude) and went on to accept his offer to attend Georgetown University Law Center.

Maurice wasted no time joining the Student Bar Association following acceptance into the Law Center, further feeding his spirit with service for others. Maurice’s willingness to step up when there is a need amongst the team is evident from the roles he has taken on while serving. These roles include being a Delegate, Chair of Academic Affairs, Chair of Community Service, and now Chief of Staff for evening and graduate students. Maurice is also a research assistant with Georgetown’s Coalition for Racial Equity and Democratic Economy (CREDE) where he assists with alleviating the devastating impacts of food desserts within D.C.s under resourced communities. He identifies himself as an optimistic realist that strives to contribute to the improvement of every institution in which he is involved. Outside of academics, Maurice engages in multiple entrepreneurial endeavors.

Maurice attributes his ability to manage multiple demanding duties to the support and motivation he receives from his wife. As life partners, Maurice and his wife enjoy raising their newborn son (January 2024), traveling, playing with their cats (Meowlkie & Jo-Jo), and rooting for hometown sports teams.

Janie Immanuel L’ 27

Janie Immanuel is a first-year evening student and Sanctions Compliance Manager at Amazon. Janie is originally from New York but has called the D.C. area home for the past 14 years. Originally moving here for undergrad at GW, she has spent her career working in the sanctions and export controls space at the U.S. Treasury Department, Sayari, and now at Amazon. Janie loves reading fantasy novels, doing yoga, and crocheting. Thus far, her favorite experiences at Georgetown have been attending the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture with U.S. House Representative Nancy Pelosi and numerous moot courts at the Supreme Court Institute.