Student Life & Community

YOUNG ALUMNI PROFILE | MAIER SALAMEH (JD ’20) Maier Salameh is a recent Memphis Law graduate and Maier has been involved in an important part of Memphis a past president of the International Law Society. She Law’s history, as women at Memphis Law are taking grew up in Collierville, TN and went to Rhodes College on a larger roll than ever before. Recent incoming for her undergraduate degree, but with the majority classes have been majority female, many of our student of her family still residing in Palestine, she has spent organizations are led by women, and women currently much of her life traveling to see them and absorbing hold all top-level law school leadership positions. the lessons that international travel has to offer. As

Maier Salameh

a Palestinian-American Muslim woman, she has a “I was very honored just to be included with all the unique perspective on life in the U.S., as well as what other strong, independent women at Memphis Law. she can contribute to society as a future attorney. Higher education used to be exclusively for men, so the fact that women are not only attending school She’s passionate about helping law students gain here but taking leadership positions and are the perspective on the world and what it means to work ones shaping the future of Memphis Law is pretty together across racial, religious and ideological phenomenal. It goes to show that the only restrictions platforms. Her unique viewpoint has allowed her to excel that are put on people who are ‘different’ are in law school, and her various internships, both with nonrestrictions that people in the status quo are pushing. profit immigration law firms in Seattle and Memphis, are I hope this leads to even more diversity within the helping put her on a path to practicing law internationally. school, and this diversity leads to more inclusivity.”