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Robert Hillstrom ’70 says he owes nearly everything he has of value to his law school education. See how he is paying it forward through a scholarship that he hopes will enable “students to have a career as satisfying as mine.”

Beloved Former Registrar Leaves Estate Gift for Endowed Scholarship

Joyce Traynor, a former registrar and administrative assistant to the dean at Hamline University School of Law, was known for her fun, friendly personality and the M&M dispenser she kept on the counter of the registrar's office.

Estate Gift Is the Latest in Couple's Long Record of Generosity

Professor Peter Knapp calls himself a "true believer" in the law school where he's taught for three decades.

Son Leaves a Legacy of Generosity and Kindness to Honor His Father

Giving back to the community was important to Howard Kidder. It was also important to his father, Charles Kidder, a 1911 graduate of St. Paul College of Law.

Alumnus Gives Back to Encourage Students

"The clinics in which I was involved during law school taught me how to litigate and the law school gave me the degree to do it. If you were to ask me, I'd say William Mitchell gave me everything I have today." - Richard L. Tousignant ‘86

'Lifelong learner' Jim Baker Lends a Hand

Jim Baker '03 can be described a lot of ways: He's a chemical engineer, an inventor, a patent attorney and, perhaps most important, a champion of education. It's this last characteristic that has made all the others possible—and defined his life.

Dan O'Keefe '78: Mitchell Helped Him Build a Resume That Adds Up

A calculator. That's what stood between Dan O'Keefe '78 and a summer clerkship at Dorsey & Whitney, a job no student in William Mitchell's history had yet attained.

Scholarship Helps Student Jenny Nystrom Pursue Her Passion: Healing Fractured Families

For 15 years before becoming a student at William Mitchell—a predecessor school of Mitchell Hamline, Jenny Nystrom ‘12 had been working with separated parents to improve the lives of the children caught in the middle of broken families. That's the kind of childhood she had and she's made it her goal to make a difference in the lives of other children living in unstable families.

A Gift For What 'Really Matters'

It's a Friday morning in February and Rolf Engh is sitting in a William Mitchell conference room talking with his wife Nancy and a Mitchell employee about how the college has changed since he enrolled in 1978.

Giving Back to Clinics: Investing in the Future Practice of Law

When Roger Haydock settled in Minnesota in 1969, he had a freshly minted J.D. from De Paul University in Chicago, a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer ("Reggie") Fellowship, and plenty of idealism about making the civil justice system better for indigent people.

The Making of a Scholarship

Over the years, Robert "Bob" Hillstrom '70, a constant companion to his late wife, Patricia, had given a lot of thought to his experience at William Mitchell—a predecessor school of Mitchell Hamline—and how his legal education launched his successful law career.

Peter Berge, a well-known attorney in the Twin Cities, was also an invested member of the Mitchell Hamline community. He served as an adjunct and an alumni board member for many years and continued his investment in the school after his death with a significant estate gift, a portion of which will endow a permanent scholarship in Peter’s name for diverse students and another portion will provide matching funds for new gifts to diversity scholarships at Mitchell Hamline.

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