Clifford Lund ’73

Few traffic ticket cases elicit the kind of attention Clifford Lund ’73 found when he took on the “Nuns Case” in Chicago involving an accident in which a nun was accused of causing a fatal car crash by running a red light. The nun was defended by Lund and his partner, and the case garnered national attention when they successfully argued to allow the nuns to wear their habits while in court, and the nun was subsequently acquitted despite all other witnesses insisting she was responsible. “People always ask at the end of a trial how I learned to ask such questions,” said Lund. “I smile. Sometimes I say one of my professors’ names, but most of the time I proudly say: I went to Cornell College and the place is still making me think.”