Taryn Henderson '17

I graduated from Quinnipiac University School of Law in May 2024. Over my law school career, I had the opportunity to experience many different aspects of the legal field that helped determine what type of law I wanted to practice. After my first year of law school, I studied abroad at Trinity College in Dublin and learned about international law. I also worked in legal clinics at Quinnipiac, working with federally incarcerated individuals who had their home confinement revoked. I interned in the Connecticut House of Representatives with the legal counsel of the Speaker of the House, where I learned about the process and how actually to draft laws. I interned at Yale Law School as a Criminal Justice Advocacy Fellow the summer before my third year of law school and worked on a death penalty case pending in Alabama. I worked in a legal clinic that was in conjunction with the Connecticut Public Defender’s Appellate Division working to represent incarcerated, indigent criminal defendants appealing convictions for non-capital offenses pending before the Connecticut Supreme Court, and I interned for the ACLU’s National Prison Project where I helped support class action prisoners’ right lawsuits and corrections reform campaigns. After I graduated in May, I studied for the New Hampshire Bar exam this summer, and I passed with a score high enough to practice in all Uniform Bar Exam jurisdictions in the United States. In November, I was sworn in as an attorney by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and I’m currently working as a public defender with the New Hampshire Public Defender’s office in Manchester!