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Meet the Incoming Law Council Leaders: Katherine Chen, 2L, and Victor Jimenez, 1L

Katherine Chen, 2L, and Victor Jimenez, 1L, will serve as Law Council the 2021-22 Law Council president and vice president, respectively. The students ran on a platform of improving the student experience and deepening support and communication for students who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

Read about these two leaders and their plans for their administration in an online exclusive in Minnesota Law magazine.

Katherine Chen, 2L, and Victor Jimenez, 1L

Law School Mourns Passing of Former Vice President Walter Mondale ‘56  

Walter F. Mondale ‘56, former vice president of the United States and 1984 Democratic nominee for president, has died at 93.

“We are heartbroken by the news of Vice President Mondale’s death,” said Garry W. Jenkins, Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law. “As a politician, public servant, diplomat, and lawyer, Walter Mondale exemplified the values of leadership and service that we seek to foster at Minnesota Law. In addition, he led with a remarkable degree of warmth and humility that always put his fellow citizens and the common good first.”

Walter F. Mondale

Law School Mourns Passing of Manuel Cervantes ‘80, Judge on Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals

Manuel Cervantes ‘80, who served twice as a Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals judge, died on March 31, 2021 at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer.

After graduating from Minnesota Law, he served as an attorney at the AFL-CIO. In 1986, he was appointed to be a judge on the Minnesota Workers' Compensation. From 1992-2002 he was a referee in Ramsey County District Court, presiding over cases in family, juvenile, domestic abuse court. He was named as St. Paul City Attorney and state administrative law judge. 

Manuel Cervantes '80

Prof. Michael Tonry Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor Michael Tonry has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

The highly competitive, annual national fellowship was awarded to 174 American and Canadian scholars, writers, and artists selected from among more nearly 3,000 applicants. The foundation awarded fellowships this year to 184 American and Canadian scientists, scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and writers and artists of all kinds, selected from a field of almost 3,000 applicants.

Investing in the Future through Scholarships: Erin Abramovitz

Erin Abramovitz, a current 3L student at Minnesota Law, has always had a passion for helping people, especially empowering marginalized individuals and families. After working in social work for almost five years as a case manager for foster care families, Abramovitz had seen the powerful impact lawyers made in the lives of the kids whose cases she had worked on—for better or worse. She witnessed firsthand the areas of the legal system that are lacking and felt limited in the ways she could make a difference through social work.

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