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Two students at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Latoya T. Highsaw and Mariah R. McGhee, were among the more than 70 law students from 16 law schools participating in the ABA Judicial Clerkship Program during the ABA 2016 Midyear Meeting in San Diego this past weekend. More than four dozen federal and state appellate, trial, and administrative law judges from throughout the country also took part in the program. The program, a 16-year old collaboration between the ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline and the ABA Judicial Division, with strong support from LEXIS-NEXIS, has put clerking on the radar screen of hundreds of minority law students, dozens of whom have successfully pursued clerkships.

Also participating was Professor of Practice Frank Sullivan, Jr., a leader of the program since its inception in 2001. Professor Sullivan designed (for the 15th consecutive year) the program’s “research exercise” in which judges and small groups of students work together to examine a closely-watched case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also moderated the program’s concluding plenary session in which 44 judges answered students’ questions.

Pictured at the ABA Midyear Meeting: Mariah McGhee, Professor Sullivan, and Latoya Highsaw.