Tim Kaine An Odd Fit At Harvard Law

Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s pick to run as candidate for vice president on the Democratic national ticket, began a life of legal work at Harvard Law School in 1979. He didn’t find it a perfect fit, however: “He had a crisis of purpose during his first year in law school when he realized most of his fellow classmates went on to become corporate lawyers with practices and principles with which he didn’t agree,” said former classmate Scott Brown. Kaine was a year younger than many of his law school peers, a state school graduate, and a devout Catholic. At the end of his first year, he told the dean he was leaving for a Jesuit mission to Honduras, where he taught carpentry and welding. While attending school, Kaine listened to Frank Zappa and Elvis Costello, and railed about feminism, racial injustice, human rights, and joined the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.