High Achiever Gets Her Start at The Summit By Tanya Bricking Leach Having traveled and lived all over the world, attorney Alicia Bond-Lewis ’97 finds that her ties to Cincinnati keep tugging her back to the places that shaped her — including right here. The Summit lifer came back to campus in 2011 to marry Dr. Christopher Lewis in the chapel. Sometimes, her professional ties have brought her back to The Summit, including when she won an alumni award in 2012. And her memory brings her back to campus every time she finishes a book. She thinks of Pat Kelly, an English teacher who kept a list of every book he ever read. 52
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“He would update it every year and hand it out to the students,” she recalls. “I just have this passion for reading. Even now, I look back each year to figure out, ‘How many books did I read?’ I’m never going to get to where he was. But that was very formidable for me. It prepared me for my career.” From Pupil to Partner Bond-Lewis’s journey to becoming a partner at Cincinnati’s Dinsmore & Shohl law firm is a path she can trace back to Grandin Road and The Summit’s mission of educating leaders of character.
