The legal community and I lost a friend last night. Professor Angela McCaffrey, director of clinics at Hamline University School of Law, died from ovarian cancer. She was a kind and gentle soul, a loyal friend to Legal Aid, and an inspiration to law students. As the director of legal clinics at Hamline, she was an advocate for the poor and voiceless.
Anglie was married to Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Mark Cosimini, and mother to Charlie and Michael. Her mother survived the war in Hitler's Germany, and Angie once told me her mom mopped up blood in concentration camps. She was, understandably, an advocate of non-violence and the sort of person who loved origami birds that symbolized peace. She liked to go hear Mark play the blues and she liked to play bridge with us – although not as much as she liked staying home with her kids in the evenings, so we didn't see enough of her. During her cancer treatment her hair came back in very curly, and she thought that was “wild.”
She was not somebody the legal profession, or the world, can afford to lose.
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