Alumni Profile

Nick Prendergast, Class of 2022

May. 12, 2022—Incoming associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Washington, D.C.

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Luke Kessel, JD/MSF Class of 2022

May. 4, 2022—Incoming Associate, K&L Gates, Charlotte

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Philip Morel, Class of 2021, Law Clerk, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Mar. 24, 2022—As a law clerk at FERC, Philip Morel works at the intersection of law and energy policy. He joined FERC's Office of Administrative Law Judges as a clerk after graduation.

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Vel Lewis named 2021 George Barrett Social Justice Fellow

Jun. 3, 2021—Lewis will work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Washington, D.C., where she will serve in the U.S. Protection and Solutions Unit.

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Pushing Boundaries: Aschkan Abdul-Malek JD/MBA’06 seeks challenge in Afghan health care startup

Jul. 26, 2017—Aschkan Abdul-Malek JD/MBA’06 was living in Afghanistan, researching health care constraints in developing countries for the World Bank, when he learned how financially devastating those constraints can be. His Afghan cook, he discovered in a casual conversation, was spending six times his annual income to fly his wife to India for medical care. The cook’s wife...

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Stephanie Parker: Distinguished Alumna Award Winner

Oct. 27, 2016—As a trial lawyer with Jones Day, Stephanie Parker ’84 defends clients in high-stakes product liability and mass tort cases while co-leading the firm’s business and tort litigation practice group. Her skill and professionalism have attracted national media attention. Law360 profiled her as one of the nation’s top 15 female trial attorneys in 2012 and...

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Judge Aleta Trauger: Distinguished Service Award Winner

Oct. 27, 2016—Long before Judge Aleta Trauger ’76 (MAT’72) became the first female U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee in 1998, she began her professional life as a teacher. Within three years, she realized teaching was not her calling. A friend suggested law school. Trauger entered Vanderbilt Law in 1973, just as the number...

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