2024 Student Summer Experience: Dawn Dudley ’26 | University of Minnesota Law School

August 1, 2024

Dawn Dudley ’26 is originally from League City, Texas, about halfway between Houston and the ocean. She completed her undergraduate degree at University College London where she earned a BA in History. Her dissertation was on Native American interactions with local courts in the Dakota Territory. This summer, she worked at the Transgender Law Center (TLC) as an intern on their impact litigation team. TLC is the largest trans-specific, trans-led organization in the United States, and helps to protect and advance the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming people across the country. Dawn shared that this job appealed to her because “of my identity as a transgender woman, the experiences that I’ve had, and a desire to help advance transgender liberation.”