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Kimberley Chongyon Motley is an American attorney, mother of three children, and former Mrs. Wisconsin-America 2004, who is known for being the first non-Afghan attorney to litigate in Afghanistan since 2008. She is licensed and has permission to practice in Wisconsin, U.S. Supreme Court, Dubai International Financial Courts, and the International Criminal Courts. As the first and only non-Afghan lawyer to litigate in Afghanistan, she is considered one of the most effective defense attorneys operating in Afghanistan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =NPR )〕 In the male-dominated Afghan court and prison system, wrote Tom Freston in ''Vanity Fair'', Motley “must appear to be someone from outer space. She acknowledges this but declares that she gets respect… She has proven to be a very effective and tenacious fighter.” Motley has been described as possessing “a rare kind of grit—the kind necessary to hang a shingle in Kabul, represent the under-represented, weather a kaleidoscope of threats, and win the respect of the Afghan legal establishment (and of tribal leaders).”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =TED )〕 Tom Rosenstock, an attorney who has worked in Kabul since 2008, told the ''Daily Beast'' in 2010 that Motley may be doing more “to promote rule of law than large ambitious programs which never get to where the rubber meets the road.” A Western diplomat in Afghanistan called Motley “the kind of person who makes you change () opinion about lawyers.” In 2014, Motley was named by Richard Branson as one of the most inspirational people and described her as "an inspiring litigator with a powerful message: “The laws are ours – no matter your ethnicity, nationality, gender, race – they belong to us.” ==Early life and education== Motley's father was African-American and her mother was from rural North Korea. Her parents met when her father was in the military. Motley was raised in a “hard” neighborhood in Milwaukee. Her parents were “very nurturing, but outside the home, my environment was hard, harsh, even though we were very close as a family. There was a lot of crime, a lot of poverty, a lot of distrust of each other. A lot of people where I grew up felt invisible to the world. I have two brothers and a sister, and I can think of no other family, for instance, who lived in a two-parent household.” She began working at a very early age. Every summer during her early childhood, Motley and her siblings were taken to a farm where they had to “plant turnips and pick green beans and strawberries” which would be frozen for the family to eat during the winter. Motley and her brother also had a newspaper route. In addition, she worked at an ice cream shop at age 13, and “at a juvenile-detention center, grocery stores, youth centers.” She was interested in law from an early age. Although her parents ordinarily would not let her watch television, she had a teacher who told the class to watch ''Law & Order''. “I loved it so much that for three years, I kept telling my parents, my teacher needs me to watch ''Law & Order''.” At one point, her father was injured in a car accident and was laid off as a result. “He wanted disability and had to spend years and go through so many lawyers to end up being not successful,” she recalled. This spurred her interest in the law, as did the spectacle of “so many people in my neighborhood go() in and out of jail.” She has said that in fact “I wanted to be a doctor and a DJ. But law picked me.”〔 Motley received an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) degree from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1997. She received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2000, and in 2003 received an M.A. from the same institution. In the same year, she earned a J.D. from Marquette University Law School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Linkedin )〕 Motley was crowned Miss Wisconsin in 2004.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kimberley Motley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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