Fall 2025 Winner of The Lawyers of Tomorrow Scholarship

Andrew Walker

Andrew’s passion for helping others is what drives his commitment to becoming a lawyer. Once he is a lawyer, his ultimate goal is to use his knowledge to help as many people as possible. Congratulations, Andrew – we are excited to see all you will accomplish!

Read his essay here

From a very young age, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My parents would always tell me I should be one because I liked arguing and was good at it. The only other career I considered was computer programming. Realizing how much math was involved was the dealbreaker for me. I was good at math in school, but had no passion for it. My other option was to become a lawyer, which has always felt right. From a very young age, I was learning as much as I could about history, as it was my favorite subject in school. I love how history class was just a collection of true stories that we can learn from as a society. History involves real people dealing with serious situations, and how we learn from those situations and experiences. Law is not much different. Each case is a piece of history that details conflicts that have affected real people, and we learn from each case through the tradition of precedent. A career in law would allow me to study human history through case law, and write new human history through new cases.

The main reason I want to be a lawyer is that there is no other profession where I can help as many people as being a lawyer will allow me to. I have always been compassionate, and I have a passion for public service. I have a strong commitment to service, demonstrated through my volunteer work at church, my role assisting detained immigrants in filing complaints against ICE while working with the DHS OIG Hotline, and my current position at Sam Henry IV: Attorney at Law, where I help individuals navigate financial hardship by guiding them through the bankruptcy filing process. I want to be able to help people similarly throughout my career, which being a lawyer will allow me to do.

I have also always been obsessed with existential questions such as: “What is the meaning of life?”, “How do we differentiate right from wrong?”, and “What is the best way to organize a society?” I was so interested in it that I got a degree in Philosophy. Oftentimes, laws are the implementation of the answers to those questions that the government has agreed upon. A career in law will allow me to contribute, however modestly, to the course of history, while engaging in the kind of philosophical discourse that shapes the foundations of society.

The last reason I want to be a lawyer is that one of my good friends from high school, Corbin Gulde, also had a desire to help and serve people through a career in law. He tragically lost his 3rd bout with cancer in the summer of 2021, and I have told myself since then that it’s not fair that I get to pursue this career and he doesn’t, so that means I must make the most of it.