Haley Taylor Schlitz was accepted to nine different law schools when she was only 16.
Highlights
- Haley Taylor Schlitz is set to graduate May 13 at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law.
- At 19 years old, she is the youngest African American to graduate law school.
- Her path to law school wasn’t conventional when she was just 13 years old.
- She hopes to work on education policy issues for an elected official or nonprofit organization.
- At 17, she was elected to serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in June 2020, and was one of the youngest delegates at the DNC that year.
- At first, she wanted to be a doctor, then realized she was fighting inequality, she said in a news release from SMU.