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Vanessa Moore, May 2018 Valedictorian. Photo by Brian Vandervliet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Bianca Lopez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanessa Moore, a third-year student at Stetson Law, plans to launch her legal career after graduating in May in Washington, D.C., where she will join the Attorney General\u2019s Honors Program, working in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Moore was named Valedictorian of the May 2018 class.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I came here to do, to pursue environmental law,\u201d said Moore, a student in Stetson’s environmental law concentration program. \u201cI thought it was such an important area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore said she hasn\u2019t always been interested in environmental issues or conservation. Growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she said she took having a clean environment for granted, and did not start to question her attitudes until her freshman year of college when her roommate chastised her for throwing recyclable items into the trash in their dorm room.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s interest in environmental work began to flourish after college. While working in corporate communications and marketing at Raymond James, Moore immersed herself in books, news articles, and documentaries covering ecological concerns and realized the importance of environmental conservation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need smart people working on these issues and I would like to be one of them,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

Seven years after graduating from college, Moore decided that it was time to go back to school, and headed to law school at Stetson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted a new challenge from a professional standpoint, and to work on issues that are meaningful and important,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI\u2019ve loved learning new things on a daily basis since I\u2019ve been in law school. That was one of the things that drove me to a new career path, because I felt there were so many more opportunities for me to learn and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her time at Stetson Law, Moore has served on Stetson\u2019s national environmental law moot court competition team, as the vice president for the Environmental Law Society, as an articles and symposia editor on the Stetson Law Review<\/em>, as a teaching assistant for three research and writing courses, and as a fellow with the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy.<\/p>\n

Moore has also done externships with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Tampa; Judge Bucklew, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida; and the Center for Biological Diversity. She also completed a clinic with the St. Petersburg City Attorney\u2019s Office and a summer internship with a private law firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a really great experience here with the clinical education department,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThose were some of my favorite experiences during law school because I got to see so many different forms of practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore said graduating from Stetson will be bittersweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking forward to moving ahead and starting to practice, since that\u2019s obviously what I came here to do,” said Moore. “However, I\u2019m also really going to miss law school. I\u2019ll miss the campus, the students and the professors at Stetson. Everyone here is so nice. It\u2019ll be sad but also exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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