{"id":1569,"date":"2013-10-01T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2014-02-28T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:32:00","slug":"fellow-profile-stephanie-matherne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/fellow-profile-stephanie-matherne\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Profile: Stephanie Matherne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Stephanie-Matherne-1.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1570\" title=\"Stephanie Matherne 1\" src=\"http:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Stephanie-Matherne-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Stephanie-Matherne-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Stephanie-Matherne-1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear TLF Donors,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your incredibly generous donation to Texas Law Fellowships. I was fortunate to receive a summer fellowship from your donation, and this allowed me to pursue public interest work this summer that I would not have otherwise been able to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, I worked for the Harris County District Attorney\u2019s Office in the Family Criminal Law Division (FCLD). At the DA\u2019s office I gained valuable experience working with criminal prosecutors on family violence cases, but I also had the unique opportunity to work with a special prosecutor who helps survivors of domestic violence seek protective orders in civil court. By the end of the summer I had sat second chair in felony jury trials and also performed direct examination in civil protective order hearings. The DA\u2019s office showed me a crucially important side of public interest work, and working there increased my commitment to pursuing public interest work after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>As I enter my third (and final!) year of law school, I am pursuing a variety of post-graduate public interest opportunities, and although I do not know exactly what I will be doing next year, I do know that I will continue to pursue public interest work. It is generosity like yours that allows UT Law students to see public interest work as a viable career option, and I am grateful that your donation has allowed me and many other UT students to pursue this incredibly important work.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again for your generous donation.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nStephanie Matherne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear TLF Donors, Thank you for your incredibly generous donation to Texas Law Fellowships. I was fortunate to receive a summer fellowship from your donation, and this allowed me to pursue public interest work this summer that I would not have otherwise been able to pursue. This summer, I worked for the Harris County District&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/fellow-profile-stephanie-matherne\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fellow Profile: Stephanie Matherne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellows","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texaslawfellowships.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}