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IN MEMORY OF JONATHAN HUSTED On Jan. 31, third-year law student Jonathan (Jon) Husted passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack. Husted grew up in Owego, New York, and earned a degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 2005. He worked as a business consultant with Accenture for several years before attending law school where he was a member, and most recently the director, of the school’s ABA Negotiations Team. Husted also was involved in several other student groups, including the Environmental Law Society, American Constitutional Society, Criminal Law Association and the Sports, Entertainment and Media Law Society. Last year, he was a summer associate with Lathrop GPM (formerly Gray Plant Mooty) and was looking forward to beginning his legal career with them this fall. In May, Husted was awarded his J.D. degree posthumously. He is survived by his loving wife, Kristin Johnson, who is a second-year law student at St. Thomas.

STUDENT AWARDED IMMIGRATION JUSTICE CORPS FELLOWSHIP Third-year law student MichelleGonzalez has been awarded a post- graduate fellowship with Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC). She is one of just 26 law students from across the country to be chosen by IJC as a Justice Fellow in 2020. As the daughter of immigrants, Gonzalez says she is passionate about human rights and immigration issues. During her fellowship she will serve for two years as a staff attorney at the Safe Horizon Immigration Law Project in Brooklyn, New York, which provides legal assistance to low-income immigrants in an array of immigration matters including deportation defense and affirmative applications for those fleeing persecution. “Michelle has shown a continued commitment and passion toward advocating for immigrants,” Robins Kaplan Director of Clinical Education and Law Professor Virgil Wiebe said. “She is extraordinarily good- natured, but also refreshingly blunt when needed. Michelle has the drive, grit and skill necessary to be a powerful part of a nonprofit team.” Gonzalez will begin her fellowship with the Safe Horizon Immigration Law Project in September 2020.

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