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 Tamara Hjelle Olsen Receives MSUM Distinguished Alumni Award
Minnesota State University Moorhead will present alumni awards to five graduates during 2007 Homecoming Week. Tamara Hjelle Olsen, GPM's managing officer, will be recognized as a "Distinguished Alumna" at an awards banquet on September 28.
Olsen, a Moorhead High graduate, earned an English degree at MSUM in 1982 and then a law degree from Harvard Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Harvard Women's Law Journal. Olsen began her career as an English teacher at Fargo North Senior High School. After graduating from law school in 1986, she joined Gray Plant Mooty, where she specializes in employment and higher education law. This year she became the first female managing officer in the Minneapolis firm's 140-year history. Olsen has taught “Women and the Law” at the University of Minnesota, is a Minnesota Law & Politics “Super Lawyer,” and was named a 2007 "Industry Leader" by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
For more information, visit http://alumni.mnstate.edu/.
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