By MICHAEL FISCH
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winter 2025
Cheree McAlpine, JD '94
Chief Legal Officer, Zoom
"When I went to Suffolk, I'd never even met a lawyer before. My only frame of reference for lawyers came from TV shows... As that young girl from rural Alabama, I wouldn't have imagined myself being a tech lawyer in Silicon Valley."
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Timothy Mungovan, JD '94
Chair, Proskauer Rose LLP
"What I say to the many people for whom I’ve served
as a mentor is that you have to have an extraordinary focus and intensity of purpose to be exceptional at being a lawyer. I did not want to do anything else. I never wanted to go golfing…”
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Claire Cronin, JD '85, HLLD '22
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
"Ireland took in over 100,000 [Ukrainian] refugees—an extraordinary feat given that Ireland is a country of only 5 million people. I believe that this great support was driven by a sense of moral duty as well as empathy."
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Judge Gustavo Gelpí, JD '91, HLLD '06
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
“We, as judges, participate in a lot of civics education. We meet with high school students.
They come to court, they ask us questions. We say, “You’ve seen attorneys arguing here. They’re not killing each other. They’re not fighting. Each thinks he or she is right. But that’s how you do it—with civil discourse.”
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Mike Dumont, JD '92
Interim President, California State University Maritime Academy
"We did an internal study in the Pentagon some years ago to identify the attributes that made for extraordinarily successful American military leaders. We looked at the most successful admirals and generals since the Second World War. While no one attribute stood out, we did find one characteristic that we believe played a role.”
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