While Philadelphia remains home to the single largest cohort of Kline School of Law alumni, a growing number have made the nation’s capital their professional home.

From the courts to federal agencies to the halls of Congress, the number of D.C.-based venues employing Kline School of Law alumni have gradually but steadily increased.  On their own and with the law school’s support, Washington-based alumni have begun to gather and establish durable networks that will link their professional endeavors with those of their colleagues and of current and future students.

“We’re a new law school.  That doesn’t mean we can’t have the same reach as Penn,” observed ’15 alumnus Steve Schultz, who is currently working with the House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Indeed, alumna Ginnie Gordon, ’14, is among a tiny number of the nation’s law school graduates chosen for the exclusive Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program.   

In October, seven alumni were admitted to practice at the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing them to file motions and argue cases in the nation’s highest court.

It’s impossible to predict when the first Kline School of Law alumnus or alumna will be sworn into office in the Capitol Rotunda, take a seat on the Presidential Cabinet or argue face to face before the nine justices.  But stay tuned; at the rate our alumni are going, it does not seem like a great deal of patience will be required.