JF
Biography
My home life deteriorated.
I got into trouble with law enforcement.
I had nowhere to go when I needed help.
I had a hard time trusting the police.
I moved out on my own when I was still a teen.
I became addicted.
I lost friends to crimes of violence.
I had acts of violence perpetrated upon me.
I made mistakes.
I did things to others that did not make me feel good about myself.
I finally chose differently.
I overcame addiction.
I studied at night and killed it at my full-time job during the day.
I always cheered for the underdog, but it had never occurred to me that someone like me could become a lawyer … to become the lawyer I wished my dad had.
But an immediate love for the law and some incredible mentoring from law professors set me on my journey to law school.
Committed from the beginning to defending the accused, I fell in love with the Constitution and what the founders set in place as a set of rules for society to operate under.