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The selection committee of the Jack Carey Scholarship has chosen Ryan B. Carlsen as the winner of for the Summer 2010 award.
Ryan is a graduate of Northwestern University where he majored in History. He is finishing his second year at Loyola University of Chicago Law School and has been clerking at the People’s Law Office. Ryan’s considerable legal experience also includes working with Kathleen Zellner and Associates in the federal civil rights trial of Fox v. Will County; clerking at the Legal Resources Division with Lester Finkle and Harold Winston; and also as a student member of the Life After Innocence Clinic at Loyola.
His plans are to apply for his S.Ct. Rule 711 license and put it to good use working in the Felony Trial Division under the supervision of Lakshmi Jha.
Ryan is the 24th winner of the Jack Carey Scholarship, awarded three times each year to outstanding applicants who clerk at the Law office of the Cook County Public Defender. The Scholarship is named in memory of Jack Carey, past president of Local 3315 and member of the Homicide Task Force who always relished in teaching the fine art of criminal defense to his law clerks.