When I think of my GULC experience I envision a springboard to fulfilling aspirations of civic and public service. As a first generation college graduate, and the child of a then single mother that was one of thirteen kids born to farmers in South Carolina, I fed an insatiable appetite for learning by mapping an academic path intended to lead to being the first Black head football coach at Notre Dame. Reality and public service caused that journey to pivot from academia to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School for an MBA and to capstone at Georgetown Law. Since graduating I have been fortunate to apply my business + law training to launching innovations that created measurable value in government, Fortune 1000, my own small business, and venture backed startup(s). Thank you GULC! All of those experiences contribute to my current mission – making the world a better place through intellectual property rights and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Currently I am “self-actualizing” through a social impact IP legal tech startup I founded in 2024 (“IPRights4All ® the dba of its parent DC based T-I-L-Group, Benefit Corp.), with a bit of seed funding from the District’s Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund managed by 1863 Ventures. In parallel I am leading a social impact law practice focused on business and IP, founded in 2016 (“Technology-Innovation-Law”). As of 2023 the law entity used a client centric service design to create an estimated $43MM of financial value for 100+ clients. The legal tech entity is working to replicate those results globally by offering IPRights4All ® as an AI / blockchain / Web3 based software as a service solution. I’ve gotta shout out to my biological and chosen family and friends for traveling with me. As the saying goes, “[i]f you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.” Health and good fortune to all in the GU and GULC Communities, respect to Dean Treanor for his leadership, and best wishes for the next steps in the journey of life.

Looking forward to hearing of the trials (literally and figuratively) and tribulations of the last 30 years through the notes and at Reunion! I've been fortunate in my family and the friends I have made in practice and in my "second shift" raising our 4 kids. Tom and I are seeing light at the end of the tunnel as our youngest graduates from high school in 2026. Being a 40 Act lawyer was not what I anticipated in 1995 but how many of us are doing what we "planned" in 1995?! And I've loved driving by GULC for several years daily taking kids to Gonzaga and seeing all of the change on campus - if you have not been back, make the trip, you won't believe it!

What a quick and amazing last 30 years. I just finished up a fantastic fellowship at Georgetown's Institute of Politics and Public Service this Spring semester, spending time on both the Hilltop Campus and in our old haunts of the Capitol Campus, having my views and beliefs challenged and questioned by a truly engaging set of students (and alumni). It was a great way to refresh myself after having served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce during the four years of the Biden Administration. I'm in the process of starting up a few ventures and figuring out what I want to be when I grow up. Really looking forward to our reunion later this year!

Hello, Class of 1995! Very excited to see you all soon! After graduation, I moved to Wilmington, Delaware to clerk for United States District Court Judge Murray M. Schwartz and had a fantastic time learning all about the inner workings of the federal trial courts and exploring a new city. My district court clerkship was followed by a federal appellate clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where I clerked for then-Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. This was an incredible experience working on federal appellate cases with a brilliant judge and amazing co-clerks. As part of his appellate clerk family, I was involved in Judge Alito’s 2006 nomination to the United States Supreme Court, including standing with President George W. Bush and other clerks at a White House press conference, meeting the President and his staff in the Oval Office, and even appearing on a television commercial during the confirmation process! This was an incredibly exciting time for all of us who had the privilege of clerking for Justice Alito during his Third Circuit days. After clerking, I went to work at Skadden in Washington, DC in the litigation and white collar group. A few years later, I joined the litigation group at Sidley Austin, where I worked in a variety of areas from securities, white collar, health care, and appellate litigation. I married a corporate tax lawyer (who received his LLM from Georgetown Law) in 2002. We later moved to Westchester County, New York to be closer to the M&A action, and I retired from practice after the birth of our third child in 2006. We currently live down the street from another GULC lawyer and we have several mutual friends from our Georgetown Law days. My husband Richard and I have five children ages 15-21, and our three eldest children are current undergraduate students at Georgetown University. It has been an incredible joy and blessing to see our children at Georgetown and continue another generation of connection with the university. I’ve also run into a couple of GULC Class of 1995 classmates who have their own children at Georgetown while moving our kids into their dorms (and recognized them immediately!) I’m looking forward to returning to Georgetown Law for our 30th reunion and reconnecting with you all!