Marvin Lett Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland Position: Director ('03-'06 term) Monogram Earned: Soccer

Former Notre Dame soccer player Marvin Lett ('87) - now an accomplished lawyer in the nation's capital - began his three-year term on the Monogram Club board of directors in June 2003. Lett currently is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., for San Francisco-based Heller, Ehrman, with a general litigation practice. One of his career highlights came when he co-authored an amicus brief in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases that recently were decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

He spent three years ('97-'00) as an instructor at the Howard University School of Law, teaching legal reasoning and writing, and he earlier was an associate at D.C.-based Steptoe & Johnson from '94-'97. Lett graduated with his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1993 and returned to Harvard to receive his LL.M. law degree in '94. He was a legal assistant in a Dallas law firm for three years before beginning his law school studies.

The Dallas native earned two monograms with the Irish soccer team ('85-'86) while appearing in 42 games as a midfielder, with four goals and one assist. He received the team's student-athlete award and was named a U.S. Achievement Academy Scholastic All-American, graduating with high honors in government/ international relations.