Deval L. Patrick – Harvard University 2015 Commencement Speaker

Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. ’82, former two-term governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will be the Commencement speaker for Harvard University’s 364th Commencement on May 28, 2015.

Patrick is a Harvard alumnus and the first in his family to attend college. He spent a year in Africa after graduation on a Rockefeller Fellowship and then returned to earn a degree at Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Patrick served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles, as a staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund working on voting rights and death-penalty cases, and then as a partner at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. In 1994, President Bill Clinton named him assistant attorney general for civil rights, where he led the Department of Justice’s efforts in prosecuting hate crimes and enforcing laws on employment discrimination, fair lending, and rights for the disabled.
He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2006 and strongly supported all levels of Massachusetts public education, as well as expanding the growth of the life sciences, clean technology, and digital technology industries. Patrick will become a visiting innovation fellow at the MIT Innovation Initiative, focusing on policymaking, entrepreneurship, and innovation-based growth.

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