The winner of the 2011 fall Jack Carey Scholarship is Ashley Petrey of the John Marshall Law School. Ashley has been clerking for many attorneys in the office including Steve Stach, Al Maldanado, Preston Jones, Lorne Gorelick, Joel Simberg, Vern Scheyler, Peter Benesh, Mark Teague, Brett Balmer, Chandra Smith and several others. She has been consitently clerking for the office since last 18 months and enjoys every minute. She was selected among another quality crop of applicants. But at the end of the selection committee meeting, Ashley was the winner.
Ashley values her clerking experience, reminding us that in the days of her hero, Abraham Lincoln, lawyers learned the art of lawyering not from formal training in schools, but from watching others lawyers practice law. And that’s exactly what clerks do at the public defender’s office with the vast amount of learning opportunities that are available to them.
Asheley says: Dear Public Defenders of Cook County: thank you so very, very much for the Jack Carey Memorial Scholarship. It means the world to me. I know how much you all loved Jack and I’m honored to receive this, which was created in his memory. I have absolutely loved working with all of you for the past year and a half and can’t wait to see what the next year will bring. We say: Congratulations, Ashley!
The deadline for the next scholaship, which will be for the Spring of 2012, is November 1, 2011. For an application, just click the Scholarship link on this website.
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