SCHOOL OF LAW NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS, KATE HIBBARD ‘06!
At the 13th annual Alumnae Brunch, St. Thomas Law honored Kate Hibbard ‘06 J.D. (left) with an Alumna Achievement Award. She was nominated by fellow alum and sister Mary Nikolai ‘18 J.D. (right). Hibbard is the Managing Associate General Counsel at Cargill. She works in several global roles, including as the lead lawyer for the company’s Aqua Nutrition business group, Cargill’s Strategic Growth Business Accelerator Enterprise, and the seafood segment of Cargill’s Protein and Salt Enterprise. As a proud St. Thomas Law alumna, Hibbard served for many years on the School of Law’s Board of Governors, including on its Executive Committee; on the Law Alumni Board, where she served as president; and as a mentor through the law school’s Mentor Externship Program. She also served the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on its Local Rules Committee and Magistrate Selection Committee. Hibbard has frequently been named to the Minnesota Super Lawyers list.
PROFESSOR MORAN NAMED U.S. FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR
Professor Rachel Moran has been chosen as a U.S. Scholar by the prestigious Fulbright Program. She will travel to South America in the fall of 2024 to study, “Policing in Times of Mass Protest: Lessons from Uprisings in the United States and Chile.” While in Chile, Moran will conduct research to compare and contrast the responses of Chilean police to mass political protests in the fall of 2019 with responses of U.S. police to mass political protests in the summer of 2020. The project will also look at the legal and social concerns stemming from those responses and identify better practices for protecting public safety during mass protests. “I’ve been immersed in police accountability work in Minneapolis and across the U.S. for most of my academic career, but sometimes we forget that other countries too are struggling to build effective law enforcement agencies that both protect public safety and advance human rights,” she said. “Chile is an ideal country for comparative study because it experienced mass political protests very near in time to those in the United States.”
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