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She graduated from Columbia Law School as a single mom of twins with over $200,000 in student loans, took a stroll through Biglaw and the federal government, and now teaches other lawyers how to use their money to finance their dream lives. Jessica Medina is a former lawyer turned Accredited Financial Counselor on a mission to help attorneys figure out their finances so they can pursue their true passions, no matter the salary. Jessica Medina, former lawyer, turned Accredited Financial Counselor, will walk us through some student loan repayment strategies, including those she used to tackle her own mortgage-sized debt and the framework she applies when helping her clients approach theirs. But there's no one correct way to approach it.
He left a bequest for use by Lambda Legal to establish a Chicago office, which was opened in 1993 as the group’s second office outside New York.(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.)ĭealing with Law School Debt: Student loan debt is an albatross around the neck of many lawyers, often delaying homeownership, marriage, children, and fulfilling careers. He demanded the best from himself and others, and his honesty and forthrightness earned him many admirers.įoster died of AIDS complications in 1991. Throughout law school and his legal career, Foster was unfailingly candid about his gayness and served as a role model, encouraging lawyers and other lesbian and gay persons to lead open lives.
Since its formation, and thanks in large part to Foster’s initial tenacity, the group has offered an array of services to both the legal and the lesbian and gay communities, including public education programs, lawyer referrals, professional education, and judicial evaluations. He became the prime mover in bringing together a core of attorneys and law students to found LAGBAC, which he served as treasurer and as co-chairperson.įoster saw to it that the nuts and bolts of bringing a new organization to life were handled and that decisions were hammered out on more theoretical issues by a group of independent minded, self-confident individuals. As he prepared to begin practice, he saw that Chicago still had no organization of legal professionals within its larger lesbian and gay community, despite the city’s high number of lawyers and the fact that cities elsewhere had developed gay and lesbian legal groups. While still at Northwestern, he became active in the law school’s gay and lesbian student organization.
During his clerkship, he also volunteered as an attorney at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic (now Howard Brown Health Center). Later, he was a litigation associate at the Chicago firms of Jenner & Block and Schiff Hardin & Waite. In Springfield, Illinois, he worked for the state Budget Bureau and Transportation Department before coming to Chicago in 1984 to enter law school.Īfter graduating first in his 1987 class at Northwestern University School of Law, Foster became a law clerk to U.S. Throughout his short career, Foster compiled a record of service and excellence.īorn in 1955, Foster graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and a master’s degree in city planning. After his death, his bequest led to establishment of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Midwest regional office in Chicago. This biography is as of Bon's induction date into the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fameĭuring his life, Bon Foster was the principal founder of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC).