Amy Hertel '99: Decade Award

Decade Award 2009 Speech: Amy Hertel

Amy Hertel (her’ tel) graduated from the College of Saint Benedict in 1999 as a political science major with an economics minor.  As a Truman Scholar, she went on to earn a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University.  She continued her education at Stanford, earning her Juris Doctorate at Stanford, where she served as president and editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.

Amy went on to the most prestigious clerkship so far achieved by any CSB alumna – with Chief Judge Mary Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  She came back to Minnesota to work, first as an attorney at Dorsey & Whitney, and now as an associate in the Minneapolis office of McKinsey & Company.  This is an organization that advises Fortune 500 companies and other leading global institutions.  Amy can’t reveal who her clients are -- but she has worked recently on two business consortiums on strategic initiatives that impact major public policies in Minnesota.

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