U.S. Judge Cooke visits with students
U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE MARCIA G. COOKE of the Southern District of Florida visited St. Thomas University School of Law in November to speak to high school student participants in the Peter R. Palermo Program. After attending a law class with Professor Nadia Soree and a presentation from the trial team, the students listened to Judge Cooke talk about her career path in law and achieving goals through hard work and perseverance. The Palermo Program is a community partnership, launched in 2013, that involves numerous visits each semester by St. Thomas Law students to the Law Magnet Program at Miami’s Carol City Senior High School, overseen by attorney Asiah Wolfolk-Manning. The law students teach topics ranging from constitutional law to U.S. government and history. The inspiration for the program was Judge Palermo’s belief that the leaders of tomorrow, in any profession, must know about the U.S. Constitution, civics, and the law.
