What did you do before law school?
I came immediately from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a degree in English and Philosophy.

What will you do with your law degree?
I will go to work in the Harris County District Attorneys Office. I was enthralled with my first-year criminal law class and I knew right then that I wanted to be a prosecutor.

What’s your advice for incoming students?
Get involved in the South Texas community! As a first-year law student, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, and the like; but it’s also easy to just feel lost. Getting involved in one of the school’s many student organizations provides you the ability to join a group of people with similar interests, and more importantly helps you feel like you “belong”.

What are you involved in?
I am vice-chairman of the Board of Advocates, a co-curricular student organization that assists the nationally known Advocacy Program at South Texas. I have been blessed to be given the chance to compete in both varsity moot court and mock trial tournaments, traveling the country representing the top trial advocacy school in the nation. The Advocacy Program has shown me my place in life: in a courtroom.

Who’s the professor who has influenced you the most?
Professor Susan Crump is nothing less than remarkable. She incorporates practical aspects of the law in her substantive courses by allowing students to do demonstrations that put the sometimes esoteric, intangible “law” into real-life scenarios. Her office door is always open and you genuinely feel welcome to be there. She has become so much more than just a professor, to me, she’s become a teacher in every sense of the word.

What’s your favorite course?
Professor Ray Moses’ Criminal Trial Advocacy class is a skills course that focuses on developing our courtroom skills for criminal trials. Each week, I learn several new tricks of the courtroom trade that I know will prepare me for my future legal career.