Commencement 2020 & 2021

Even Mother Nature seemed to know it was a special homecoming. Gray clouds that had lingered all day gave way to evening blue skies and sunshine as members of the Law School’s Class of 2020 processed down St. John’s Great Lawn and took their seats for a long-awaited, in-person commencement ceremony on Monday, July 19, 2021.

It takes about six steps to get up to the graduation stage in St. John’s Carnesecca Arena, and around a dozen more to cross it. But, as Dean Michael A. Simons shared with celebrants at the Class of 2021 commencement exercises on Sunday, June 6, 2021, that short walk is deeply symbolic.