Jumpstart administration (L-R): Stephanie Villinski, Deputy Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism; Tania Luma, Assistant Dean, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Loyola Chicago School of Law; Martin Sinclair, Chair, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism; Dean Jennifer L. Rosato Perea, DePaul University College of Law; Karen Alicia Shaw, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Accreditation, Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing, Loyola University Chicago College of Law; Samantha Woo, Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Marsha Ross-Jackson, Assistant Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Justice Rena Van Tine, First District Appellate Court; Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism; Susan Landrum, Dean of Students and Assistant Dean of Academic Administration, University of Illinois College of Law; Alex Bolden, Associate, Jones Day; Julia Roundtree Livingston, DEI Manager, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism; Erin McGinley, Of Counsel, Jones Day; Elsa Andrianifahanana, Partner, Jones Day . Courtesy photo
In Illinois, 91 1Ls will now be better prepared to start law school after they participated in Jumpstart, a program of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.
Ann Claire Williams, a retired U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois and current of counsel at Jones Day, created Jumpstart—a pre-law school preparatory program for first-generation law students and those from communities that are historically underrepresented in the legal profession—in the early 2000s, according to 2Civility’s announcement.
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