Osler's Razor

Charles Dolson graduated from St. Thomas in 2014, and was one of my favorite people to see show up in class. So, it's good that he took most of them, including the clinic!

He came to law school with a lot of worthwhile experience. He had been a police officer up on the Red Lake Reservation (where he had spent much of his childhood), and then the Chief of Police there. (Red Lake is a "closed" reservation, meaning that all land is held in common, and there is no private land ownership). Before that, he was in the Marines, and among other tasks worked on Marine One (and, I think, closed the door on Bill Clinton's hand, which is understandable since the guy could never stop waving). 

I love having people with law enforcement experience in class-- along with social workers, they have the most useful backgrounds for class discussion. And Charlie was just fun to be around, too.

After law school, he served for four years as the Executive Director of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, and now works as an attorney for Milles Lacs Corporate Ventures. He's one of those people with a remarkable circle of friends and colleagues-- he seems to know everyone in several overlapping circles. And no doubt, they feel the same way I do: lucky to be in the same circle as him.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 1:00 AM