The University of Toledo College of Law’s Toledo Way Series continues with an alumna sharing her experiences as an attorney, advocate and author on Thursday, April 10.
Corey Minor Smith will present “Still Driven: Career, Caregiving, and Courage,” a free, public conversation with the College of Law’s Kate Abu-Absi, at noon in the McQuade Law Auditorium.
Corey Minor Smith graduated from the College of Law in 2001.
In “Still Driven: Career, Caregiving, and Courage,” Minor Smith will reflect on a nearly 25-year career in the legal field that began with her graduation from the College of Law in 2001. Minor-Smith has served as an assistant prosecutor, judicial attorney and mayoral cabinet member in Canton and Stark County in Ohio. She later served general counsel for the Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority, the same public housing authority that once housed her family, and as senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She is currently general counsel for Pratum Companies.
Minor Smith also is a mental health advocate and author of “#Driven,” a motivational memoir that explores how, with the support of family and friends, she surpassed significant challenges to achieve her dreams of becoming a lawyer and serving others.
“Toledo Law is thrilled to be welcoming back alumna Corey Minor Smith as our final Toledo Way speaker of the year,” said Abu-Absi, the program manager for alumni and student engagement at the College of Law. “She is a distinguished attorney who served as senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Biden administration, an ardent mental health advocate and trained facilitator for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and celebrated author. Our students will hear her remarkable journey, overcoming countless obstacles, to become a champion for our society’s most vulnerable communities.”
The Toledo Way Series of speakers is named as a nod to well-known collegiality that characterizes the legal community in Toledo.
For more information, go to the Toledo Way Series website.
