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Portrait of Michelle Sutherland

Honor Society® member

Michelle Sutherland

Legal Assistant at McCravy, Newlon, & Sturkie Law Firm

  • University of South Carolina-Upstate
  • Criminal Justice/CAST
  • Class of 2022
  • Moore, South Carolina

Member since February 2020

Education

  • University of South Carolina-Upstate

    Criminal Justice/CAST

    2019 – 2020

  • Spartanburg Community College

    Associate’s Degree AOT-Legal

    2016 – 2019

Honors and awards

  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

    I graduated with honors from Spartanburg Community College in 2019 when I received my Associates Degree.

  • National Honor Society

    I was a member of the National Honor Society when I graduated from High School in 1990, and I am also a member while in college now.

  • Dean’s Honor Roll List

    I have maintained a 3.5 or higher GPA since going back to school in 2016 as a non-traditional student.

  • National Beta Club

    I have been a member of the National Beta Club since high school.

Goals and interests

Career goal

I would like to work with domestic violence victims and juvenile delinquents in the rehabilitation phases of their lives. Eventually, I would like to own safe houses across the state lines into North Carolina and Georgia, for starters. I want to help women and children, that truly want to escape their abusers, get out of their volatile relationships and go underground if that is what it takes for them to get free and stay free. I want to help the abused women and the abused young people get an education so that they can obtain gainful employment one day. I want to use my own personal testimony and life’s experiences, along with my educational expertise to give hope to the hopeless and help to the helpless.

Graduate school interests

I am realizing more and more every day that I am going to need a Master’s Degree, at a minimum, to accomplish the desires of my heart and to bring my dreams to fruition.

Experience

  • Legal Assistant

    McCravy, Newlon, & Sturkie Law Firm

    Feb 2017 – May 2020

  • CSR

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    Aug 2016 – Aug 2019

Volunteering

  • CSR

    SC Works/SC DEW

    Aug 2016 – Aug 2019

  • Chaplain

    Presbyterian Hospital Charlotte, NC

    Jan 2009 – Mar 2012

  • Sunday School Teacher/Youth Leader/Children’s Church Teacher

    United Pentecostal Church, International

    Jun 1988 – Feb 2012

Languages

  • English (US) Fluent