Former Miss America Cara Mund, a North Dakota native, graduates from Harvard Law School

FARGO — Cara Mund, the one girl from North Dakota to change into Miss America, has graduated from Harvard Regulation Faculty with cum laude honors.

“That is simply the launching pad for what I hope to perform subsequent,” Mund mentioned in an announcement issued Friay, June 3. “I’m so proud to be a North Dakotan. I might have by no means change into Miss America or a Harvard Regulation Faculty graduate with out the willpower, braveness, and character instilled in me by the unbelievable folks of North Dakota.”

Mund, a Bismarck native who was Miss America in 2018, served because the Nationwide Goodwill Ambassador for the Youngsters’s Miracle Community Hospitals, labored with the Make-A-Want Basis and supported troops via the United Service Organizations.

At Harvard Regulation Faculty, Mund was a educating fellow, government editor of operations for the Harvard Journal of Sports activities and Leisure Regulation, a group member of the HLS Mock Trial Affiliation, an editor for the Harvard Journal on Laws and the Harvard Journal of Regulation and Gender, and a member of the Ladies’s Regulation Affiliation. She additionally was an authorized pupil lawyer in North Dakota and Massachusetts.

In graduating, Mund acquired the 2022 Kristin P. Muniz Memorial Award, which honors a graduate who’s proven dedication to representing purchasers in prison courts. She was additionally acknowledged as one of many graduates who did greater than 1,000 hours of professional bono work.