FIVE ALL-STARS Evan Kohlmann L'04 Eric Rothschild L'93 Miguel Rodriguez C'94 L'99 Derek Pew L'93 Aretha Delight Davis L'97

“You always have to bring your ‘A game’ because she, like any attorney, will ask those tough questions and force you to look at things in a different way,” says Rodriguez as he sits in the Senator’s conference room in the Russell Building. “She is a great lawyer in her own right, and I think that’s what makes the job incredibly rewarding.”

His high-profile job aside, Rodriguez is not your typical “Hill Rat.” He didn’t scurry from office to office to build a résumé in the hopes of landing that primo assignment on the House Judiciary Committee. Despite growing up in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., where he mainlined government through daily reading of The Washington Post, Rodriguez never yearned for a career in politics.