Robert Alexander

Drexel faculty mentors: Susan Brooks, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Amelia Boss, David Cohen, Richard Frankel, Rachel Lopez

A retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with over 22 years of active military service, Bob Alexander chose to continue serving his country as a public interest attorney, graduating from the Drexel Kline School of Law in 2016 and receiving the American Law Institute-Continuing Legal Education Scholarship and Leadership Award.  He participated in legal internships with the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in Washington, D.C. and the American Civil Liberties Union – Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, served as a liaison member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and on the ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty.  Bob recently completed a clerkship for Assignment Judge Mary C. Jacobson of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Bob was recently chosen to receive a two-year Equal Justice Works Post Graduate Fellowship, which is meant to support new public interest positions for lawyers who are committed to developing and leading innovative social justice projects.  Bob will work with Swords to Plowshares, a San Francisco Bay area Veteran service organization, on a project he created to design legal services for LGBTQ veterans. The project will create a medical-legal partnership with the local Veterans Administration Vet Center to initiate outreach services into the LGBTQ and Veteran communities so as to identify and support disenfranchised LGBTQ Veterans.  Bob’s fellowship is being sponsored by Greenberg Traurig LLP, a global law firm with offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco and 36 other cities.

Last updated: July 2018