Heidi Mueller ’07 on finding confidence, meeting her husband, the academic and student community, and developing skills at the school

I give to the University of Chicago Law School because the Law School is where I found my power and my voice in the world, and how I wanted to use that power and voice to change it. I started law school certain that I was the dumbest person there; certain that my incredibly intelligent classmates and professors would look down on me or dismiss me. I left confident in the skills I learned and sharpened; sure, after participating in the Clinic, of my career path; unafraid, after engaging every day with the likes of Cass Sunstein, Richard Epstein, David Strauss, and a few hundred other brilliant minds, to make myself heard to anyone. My time at the Law School empowered me in ways that continue to benefit me every day. And on top of that, I met my future husband in our Bigelow Section 1L year.

Heidi Mueller ’07