Meet Your Benefactors
Kevin Sieben, Samuel Edmunds, and Michael Miller are criminal defense and personal injury attorneys serving clients throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. Their firm, Sieben Edmunds Miller PLLC, is located in Eagan, MN.
The attorneys of Sieben Edmunds Miller are pleased to offer a biannual, national, needs-based scholarship for undergraduate students and law students. We remember our own law school experience fondly; the education and networking opportunities we received during undergrad and law school continue to be invaluable to this day. We hope our scholarship will reduce the financial burden on students pursuing a career in criminal justice and allow them to focus on making the most of their education.
Sieben Edmunds Miller Criminal Justice Scholarship
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Award Recipients
Charles Clark III
Spring 2025
According to my high school head football coach, Vic Kubu, life is not a dress rehearsal. Life is a continuing learning experience, and you must recognize your strengths and weaknesses to become a better person in anything you choose, whether it is your positive attributes and skills that help you achieve your goals or deficiencies that need improving. Knowing yourself and what you are capable of can help you recognize and overcome your weaknesses. These strengths and weaknesses have become more apparent as I have become older. I’ve come to understand that our strengths and weaknesses are not just labels; they shape our individuality and guide our personal growth.
Kate Denney
Fall 2024
I believe that EVERYONE has a right to quality legal representation. I also believe that fighting to minimize the number of people who experience the violent, disruptive, and traumatic prison complex is the first step in a much larger conversation about true community justice. The negative effects of the prison-industrial-complex are especially detrimental to Black people, Immigrants, Indigenous people, Queer people, people experiencing homelessness, and people living in poverty.
Emma Galtes
Spring 2024
I am a single mother, first-generation law student, born and raised in Venezuela, but “adopted” by USA in my mid-twenties. I have worked for over thirty years as an occupational therapist in burns, and poly trauma hospital units, and now want to serve my community as a lawyer, to advocate for those whose lives have encountered more adversity than what I had faced I strongly believe that I could serve my community better if I had the opportunity to legally represent the underserved.
Miriam deVille
Spring 2023
I am passionate about becoming a public defender. I have my entire future planned. After a few years in the public sector, I plan to open my own criminal defense practice. Money earned from those cases can then be put towards pro bono wrongful conviction cases. I want to help people the system threw away, the way someone helped me. I want to be good at my job and I want to make people understand it is never too late. You are never too far gone to correct course.
Valerie Stewart
Fall 2022
As a first-generation law student, I am committed to ensuring that equality and equity is universal for all. In the pursuit of this goal, in the past two years, I have expounded upon my career expertise by addressing legal issues such as restoration of voting rights and criminal expungement which disproportionately impact the Black community nationwide.
Victoria R. Nauman
Spring 2022
On my first day of Teach For America-Baltimore, I was asked: “Who are you to teach here?” My initial inclination was to respond that I am educated, a leader, and am passionate about seeing children succeed. I am a first-generation college student who had to work my way through undergrad and know how to tackle adversity. However, to say I was naïve and underprepared would be an understatement.
J’djouna Pierre
Fall 2021
I am a first-generation college graduate. That achievement alone has already transformed the trajectory of my life and the lives of my family for the better. But I cannot and will not stop there. My ultimate dream is to become the first lawyer in my family and pave the way for others. I was born in Haiti and immigrated to the United States at a young age. Embracing my diverse background helped shape the person who I am today and encouraged me to explore diverse issues.
