Ever heard the one about the difference between a lawyer and a jellyfish? One’s a spineless, poisonous blob, and the other lives in the ocean! Know why they bury lawyers’ coffins so far underground? Because deep down, they’re good people! Sometimes, acknowledges Charlotte Hunsberger ’91, the damaged reputation lawyers enjoy in our culture is deserved. […]
Of EMU’s eight presidents during its 98 years of existence, only one came from a career in a totally secular field. Law. This was president no. 7, Joseph L. Lapp ’66. After graduating with a J.D. from the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1972, Lapp practiced law in several situations before becoming a partner […]
She wanted to be a legal secretary, and that was her first job after college. But Amy (Showalter) Leftwich ’90 is now the chief administrator of a court in the Virginia judicial system. Her title is “clerk of court” for Campbell County General District Court in Rustburg, Virginia. That means she oversees day-to-day operations, supervising […]
At any time of the day (or night) Vera Hailey ’90 may be called upon to issue an arrest warrant, a subpoena, an emergency protective order, or a search warrant. She may need to commit someone to jail or process an involuntary mental commitment. Hailey is a magistrate in western Virginia. “We are a neutral […]
Jim Alexander ’77, Wayne D. Beaman, class of ’69, and Edward Ricca ‘83 embraced law enforcement as their way of contributing to safe communities and ministering to distressed people. Alexander and Beaman trace their police work to youthful dreams. “As a boy, I went through a phase of wanting to be a police officer, and […]
Four EMU alumni are an important part of a nearly 40-year-old mid-sized law firm – Gibbel Kraybill & Hess LLP − in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Two are founders, another is a founder’s son and the fourth is the firm’s administrator. Melvin Hess, class of ’68, jokes that he became interested in a law career after arguing […]
As a 2014 graduate of Harvard University Law School, Karissa Sauder ’10 left a big impression on the 50 prospective honors students and their families who visited EMU one February weekend. She jumped right into a big question on their minds: As highly accomplished high school students – with lots of choices of where to […]
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This article covers alumni that we missed including in the Fall/Winter 2014-15 issue of Crossroads focusing on alumni in information technology. Lois Seitz Kreider, class of ‘68 The Seitz family has a long history with the EMU community. The parents of Lois Seitz Kreider met at Eastern Mennonite High School, class of 1934, and she and […]