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Duke Law School celebrated its class of 2025 on Saturday, May 10, with a ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Duke Law’s Convocation ceremony honored 226 graduating JD students, five of whom also earned a Master of Laws, or LLM, in law and entrepreneurship, and four of whom also received an LLM in international and comparative law. Twelve JD graduates also earned a graduate degree from another school at Duke University. Thirty JD graduates received the Public Interest and Public Service Law certificate.

Eighty-eight graduates of law schools in other countries also received their LLM degree. Twenty trial and appellate judges received an LLM in judicial studies.

Distinguished speaker Sarah Boyce JD ’12, general counsel to N.C. Governor Josh Stein, told graduates not to lose sight of the values and ideals that brought them to law school as their careers unfold.

“Don’t be wedded to exactly where you think you’ll end up, whether professionally or geographically. Let your career surprise you and take you places you never would have expected,” said Boyce, who spent three years at Munger, Tolles & Olsen in Washington, D.C., before accepting the role of deputy solicitor general of North Carolina. “That turned out to be the best professional decision I’ve made thus far. It set me on a path that allowed me to do things I could barely have imagined when I was sitting where you are today.”

Speakers elected by each class included Sabrina McKenna representing the MJS class, Eugenie Gargnon representing the LLM class, and Tyler Grace representing the JD class.