Cooley law grad who wanted to be a lawyer since 14 is a prosecutor at 20
A Cooley law grad who wanted to be a lawyer since she was 14 years old managed to achieve her goal only six years later.
Robyn Crawford is only 20 years old and an assistant state attorney in Florida’s Fifth Judicial Circuit, the Daily Business Review (sub. req.) reports.
Crawford attended high school and college simultaneously, and graduated from Cooley’s campus in Tampa in just two years. She was third in her law school class.
Crawford said she realized she wanted to be a prosecutor when she began volunteer work at age 14 with the Youth Court, a diversion program for first-time juvenile offenders.
Crawford credits her success to her parents, “who had always believed I had the potential to do it.” Her father, however, tells the Daily Business Review his daughter’s good work ethic was key.
“It seems like it comes easy to her, but no one sees the hard work that goes behind the scenes,” William Crawford told the publication. “Plenty of days she would study until 3 a.m. and get up at 9 a.m. to go to class.”
