GROW YOUR OWN LAWYER PROGRAM
The Professional Diversity Committee of the Wichita Bar Association started the Grow Your Own Lawyer program in 1996. This program is modeled on the Grow Your Own Teacher program. The program is aimed at racial minority and female high school juniors and seniors who have an interest in pursuing a career in the law. In 2004 the Professional Diversity Committee won the Kansas Bar Association's Outstanding Service Award and the Wichita Bar Association's President's Award for its work on this program.
Each student is matched with a lawyer-mentor with whom the student will meet several times during the spring semester. Monthly programs are held for the students, which last year included tours of the Sedgwick County DA's office, jail and juvenile detention facilities, a field trip to KU and Washburn Law Schools, the Kansas Supreme Court and the Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka.
The long-term goal of the program is that those students who go on to a career in the law will return to the Wichita/Sedgwick County area to practice.
Alumni Tracking Form (PDF)
Alumni Tracking Form (Online)
For more information, contact Kellie Hogan at hogank@klsinc.org. You may also contact her by phone at (316) 290-8217.