Profiles in Professionalism

PROFILE

Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr.
Before earning his law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1978, Edmund A. Sargus Jr. studied American history at Brown University, where he graduated with honors in 1975. That fascination with his country’s history has conti
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Vilia B. Hayes, Esquire
Vilia B. Hayes, Esquire, attributes her passion for providing legal services to the underserved to two factors: her Catholic education and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Judge Cale Bradford
Cale Bradford’s future in the legal profession seemed predestined: His father, a lawyer, named him after Cale Holder, a district judge for the Southern District of Indiana he admired greatly.
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Judge Patricia Breckenridge (Ret.)
For Patricia Breckenridge, law started out as a family affair. Growing up in the tiny town of Nevada, Missouri, she absorbed her lawyer father’s values and developed what she calls “a passion for law and rules and the importance of the justice system
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Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian (Ret.)
One of the defining moments of Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian’s life was the death of her oldest son, Matthew, a Marine captain who died while serving in Afghanistan in 2012.
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Judge Andrea Leahy
Andrea Leahy always had kind of a split personality: one side pianist, the other side lawyer. That split was evident even before she graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1983 with a double major of music and politics.
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Judy Perez Martinez, Esquire
When Judy Perry Martinez, Esquire, was growing up, her family had a furniture store in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. But when her parents fell on hard times, they lost the business and nearly their home.
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