"A law degree is one of the most versatile of degrees," said Ellen Seats, who has traveled with her law license from Ohio to Micronesia to Ukraine to Jordan and soon to Belgrade. Recently in Ann Arbor, Mi visiting her mother before moving on to her next assignment, Seats added, "It has opened so many doors for me. It has made me eligible for a lot more jobs than colleagues of mine who had PhDs in political science or economics."
Seats graduated from University of Michigan Law School in 1989. After clerking for a Federal Court judge, she joined a law firm in Columbus, Ohio working as litigator. The urge to travel abroad first sparked in high school when she was in Amsterdam as an exchange student again rose to the surface. In spring, 1999 she was off to the city of Palikir, on the island Pohnpei in Federated States of Micronesia as a member of the Peace Corps.
"I didn't know if I would always be able to travel," said Seats, explaining her decis...