Jordan Webber is Valedictorian of the Spelman College Class of 2011

Washington, D.C., native is an aspiring attorney

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Jordan Webber, Valedictorian, Spelman College Class of 2011

ATLANTA, GA (05/18/2011)(readMedia)-- Jordan Webber, a political science major with a 3.975 GPA, is the valedictorian for the Spelman College class of 2011. Webber was among the 550 students who received their diplomas on May 15 during Spelman's 124th commencement, which featured first lady Michelle Obama delivering the address.

A graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., Webber is a Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society inductee. She was one of 16 students in the United States to be named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader in 2009. That same year, she was selected to attend the Public Policy and Leadership Conference Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Toward the end of her junior year, Webber won an Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Summer Undergraduate Fellowship at Yale Law School, and that summer interned for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C.

The Washington, D.C., native intends to be a third-generation attorney with a career in public interest law. "I want to represent people who may not always know they are entitled to representation," said Webber, who will work as a legal assistant for the law firm McKenna Long and Aldridge LLP in Atlanta for a year before applying to law school.

About Spelman College

Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a prestigious, highly selective, liberal arts college that prepares women to change the world. Located in Atlanta, Ga., this historically black college boasts an 83 percent graduation rate, and outstanding alumnae such as Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman; former U.S. Foreign Service Director General Ruth Davis, authors Tina McElroy Ansa and Pearl Cleage; and actress LaTanya Richardson. More than 83 percent of the full-time faculty members have Ph.D.s or other terminal degrees, and the average faculty to student ratio is 12:1. More than 2,100 students attend Spelman. For more information, visit: www.spelman.edu.