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An aptitude test directed Laureen Kickham to a paralegal career, and it was a perfect fit.  Kickham is a paralegal for the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy and loves the services she provides through her work in the center’s Access to Justice Pro Bono Partners Program.  ...

A native of Charlotte, Lisa Hafer Hite has a 36-year history in the legal sector, beginning in 1986 when she began her first job as a legal secretary at what was then known as Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice. “At ...

Kimberly Walsh had parlayed an associate degree in business administration into a 10-year career as a medical billing manager in a doctor’s office before making a big career switch from medicine into law. Born and raised in upstate New York, ...

After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Teri Rodriguez needed a job. It never crossed her mind to pursue a career as a paralegal. “I did not pick the paralegal profession per se; it found me,” Rodriguez said. Born in ...

Dawn Powell lives her life based on the lessons she learned from her grandparents, who raised her and her sister from the time they were babies. “My grandparents are a retired electrician and a retired nurse, and they taught me ...

Olivia McElvaney loves solving problems. “People ask for my help putting out fires, and that is my specialty,” she says. “I am good at finding the gaps and the minutiae that others miss, and those details can often make or ...

Christiana Parker struggled with making a career decision after graduating from Meredith College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Then an ad for a paralegal position caught her eye. “Of course, I didn’t have the resume needed for ...

Lisa Parker Marker, who loves her rhyming name, grew up as an only child in Stanly County.  A graduate of South Stanly High School, she studied at Appalachian State University but left before graduating and found a job as a ...

Landon McKinney credits his love of politics with leading him to a career in law. “As I went through school and learned more about our legal system and the complexity of it, I became intrigued with its depth even more,” ...

Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman took the scenic route to her fledgling career as a paralegal. Born into a military family, she started life in Germany, but moved to central Alabama with her family, where she grew up. “My road to college graduation ...

When Sarah Johann started college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she had no career path in mind and changed her major several times before combining the subjects she enjoyed the most—political science, sociology and writing—and set ...

Before she had an internship with Golden, Meekins, Holdens and Stiles, Charlotte native Shawana Almendarez had never heard of paralegals and had no idea what they do. But during her internship, through a program sponsored by the John O’Leary Bar ...

Karole Northrup’s career as a paralegal has introduced her to a few interesting characters and has given her a seat at some of the nation’s most sensational court proceedings. She earned her associate degree in paralegal studies from Orlando College ...

As a student, Jason Williamson studied pre-med at the University of South Carolina, intending to pursue a career as a doctor, but a mission trip to El Salvador changed his focus. “I traveled to El Salvador with the Lutheran Campus ...

Christie Daniels Herding landed her first law firm job when she was a quick-witted, enterprising teenager. At 16, she convinced the Cary law firm of Bain & Marshall to hire her. “Sol Marshall was the first person to give me ...