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M. LYNN MURRAY, K.C., Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Island, started her education in a one room school with eighteen students from grades 1 to 8. Her parents met at a barn dance on a farm they eventually bought in 1959. They grew potatoes and raised beef cattle while her father stayed at his main job as a long-haul truck driver and her mother worked as a secretary.
They encouraged Lynn to get the education they were never able to have themselves.
THOMAS M. OTAKE, Honolulu, Hawaii, doesn’t like to brag about it, but, using a pseud- onym, he was a member of the winning team in the 2021 Queen Lili’uokalani Long-distance Outrigger Race, covering the eighteen miles between Kailua and Honaunau in just under one hour fifty minutes.
JAMES J. PALOUCEK, North Platte, Nebraska, lives about a five-hour drive from the mountains of central Colorado and spends considerable time with his wife hiking, biking, and skiing. They have summited five of Colorado’s famed 14-ers, peaks in excess of 14,000 feet above sea level. They plan to get to the top of the other ten.
JIM MAC PERDUE, JR., Houston, Texas is a second-generation trial lawyer and second-generation Fellow of the College but hates being called Junior. While he has not published as an author like his father, he does own many leather-bound books and his home smells of rich mahogany.
KELLI L. PORGES, Boston, Massachusetts, spent fifteen years as a full-time public defender before founding her own firm, focusing her practice solely on criminal defense and Title IX matters. She continues to accept indigent appointed matters as these cases remain close to her heart. She frequently presents on homicide and sexual assault cases.
STEVEN J. PUGH, Columbia, South Carolina, went to the Citadel as a chemistry major; his D- on his first semester chem- istry mid-term was accompanied by a note from his instructor: “Get out now before the rush.” Steve might not have been smart at chemistry but he was smart enough to change his major to English. One of Steve’s greatest joys is coaching youth sports, particularly Little League baseball.
BRIAN T. RAFFERTY, Atlanta, Georgia, is a former federal prosecutor who spent more time in Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge than in the library when he attended Vanderbilt Law School.
T. DAVID RHENEY, Greenville, South Carolina, was a cheerleader, cannon-firer and JV Tiger at Clemson. Dave met his wife Barbara at Clemson but could not get a date with her until seven years later. Now they are Disney fanatics, and have visited Disney World well over thirty times since 1996, when they took their then three-year-old child there for the first time.
WILLIAM RIDGWAY, Chicago, Illinois, tended bar and served as a bouncer (he has a third-degree black belt in taekwondo) forty hours a week at the Rose & Crown while going to Stanford Law School.
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