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JOHN ROGERS, St. Louis MO, played Division 1 soccer at Missouri State University and worked his way through night law school. He started his career at the St. Louis City Public Defenders office in 1993 and tried ten homicide cases before he had a client convicted. Now in private practice he still represents individuals – successfully – charged with murder. DANIELE ROY, AD. E., Montreal QB, is among the first women to practice in criminal defence in the Province of Quebec and has represented clients in over forty murder trials. She once hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro for a fundraiser in support of arthritis research, and appeared in a pro- duction at Le Theatre D Aujourd’hui to help raise funds to support French language Canadian theater. YONETTE SAM, Atlanta GA, came to the United States in 1982 from Guyana at age seventeen. She is the first lawyer, and a Harvard lawyer at that, in her large extended family. She has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for over twenty years, but takes pride in the fact that she also served as an Assistant Public Defender for several years. But she takes most pride as the mother of triplets, one of whom was the first African American Rhodes Scholar from the University of Georgia. MARILYN SANDFORD, Vancouver BC, was counsel in two separate wrongful conviction cases in which her clients (who did not have the good fortune of having her as trial counsel) had spent a combined sixty-plus years in prison. STEVE SCHLEICHER, Minneapolis MN, a former federal prosecutor, served pro bono as a special prosecutor in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Steve served as a JAG Officer in the Army Reserve for ten years. Steve tries out his arguments to his Rottweiler to help prepare for court. PAUL SCHMIDT, New York NY, tried being a bartender, writer, caregiver, psychology researcher, and ski mountain cook before becoming the first lawyer in his family (al- though, if his bar was well located and served food, he could have been all of those things by just sticking to bartending). AAFRAM Y. SELLERS, Jackson MS, tried his first murder case six years out of law school. His client was a young moth- er of three who shot the father, who had physically abused her for years, after being brutally attacked. Aafram won the case and found his calling. WILLIAM SETTLES, Omaha NE, ran for Tom Osborne at the University of Nebraska and for his life in Pamplo- na, Spain. BRIAN SPEARS, Southport CT, has completed the Newport-Bermuda Race twice and routinely enters ocean racing events in New England where he sails aboard a forty-foot sailboat as a nonprofessional with a nonprofessional crew of close friends. KIMBERLY SVENDSEN, Minneapolis MN, worked as a stage manager in Los Angeles and as the box office manager of a Sunset Strip concert venue prior to law school at UCLA, a clerkship in LA, and a position in an LA firm before be- ginning her real career as an AUSA in, of course, Minnesota. CHAD SWANSON, Waterloo, IA, is a cellist with a bache- lor’s degree in music and performed professionally in the Waterloo symphony orchestra in his youth. He continues to play at church services and for weddings; when he isn’t asked to play at a wedding, he officiates. Chad and his wife are about half-way through their plan to visit every national park in the country. 71 JOURNAL