“If I had to do it all over again, knowing that I would go to law school and knowing that I would go into politics and public service, I would have taken more courses in English and Philosophy, because that’s where you learn to read and to think critically and to construct a powerful argument.” – Ron Kirk ‘76
Ambassador Kirk served as the first African American mayor of Dallas and as a member of President Obama’s Cabinet as U.S. Trade Representative. He now is Senior of Counsel in the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.