These fundraising achievements and milestones, paired with significant cultural shifts globally, proved that the questions Reynolds faced in 2014 had been answered. The value of a legal education today has become evident in the rise of social justice movements throughout the world and the overwhelming increase in law school applications in 2018 and 2019. To Reynolds, the world has expressed a universal need for lawyers and the law to represent all of the people it is meant to protect. Better yet, the 25 percent rise in Wake Forest JD applications in 2018 — three times the national average — indicated that many future lawyers not only want to fulfill this need, but to do so with a Wake Forest education. Reynolds proved through her vision and leadership that Wake Forest could navigate the adversity facing legal education by simply emphasizing the school’s own values and mission. Wake Forest Law didn’t need to become anything beyond itself — it just needed to continue to shape its offerings to the needs of its students, the legal profession, and the world.
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