Noelle Volin JD ’11 originally went to law school to be an FBI agent, “to get the bad guys.” But it wasn’t too long before Noelle figured out that, “Fighting for victims is what I’m meant to do.” Noelle was awarded the Hamline Law Student Bar Association’s inaugural “Young Alumni Award,” at its Barrister’s Ball in February, for her groundbreaking work with the St. Paul-based nonprofit Breaking Free.
It was just a few years ago that Michael Pesko '07, a young man from Shell Lake, Wisconsin, walked across the graduation stage and turned his tassel, marking the completion of his undergraduate degree at Hamline University. Using his Hamline education, it did not take him long to accomplish many things, including recently becoming a tenure-track faculty member at an Ivy League school.