2024 Student Summer Experience: Patience Ranjani McHenry ’26

Patience Ranjani McHenry’s ’26 hometown is Beaumont, Texas, by way of the Bay Area, California. For her undergraduate degree, she studied sociology, psychology, and African American studies at the University of Notre Dame (Go, Irish!). This summer, she worked as an Edward Coles Fellow at the Illinois Human Rights Commission in Chicago. She says, “There are so many nuanced areas of the law, and administrative law is one of them. I received sound advice that administrative law is a “must-have” experience for a law student/professional, so why not take the opportunity to immerse myself into the topic firsthand?  I could not believe that I had the chance to work with administrative law judges my first summer in law school—doing important work in discrimination, employment, and housing.”

Read more about Patience's summer job experience in the digital edition of Minnesota Law magazine