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THIS MORNING AT XAVIER CONVOCATION CENTER, AND THEN ONE LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL STUDENT RECEIVED SPECIAL RECOGNITION, EARNING HIS LAW DEGREE. GET THIS. AT 18 YEARS OLD, JAMES MCGRAW NOW HAS FIVE CERTIFICATES. CONCENTRATION IN TAXATION LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND PLANS TO ATTEND NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S LAW SCHOOL OF LAW, EARNING HIS FOURTH DEGREE BEFORE TURNING 20 YEAR
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18-year-old graduates with a law degree. He was 12 when he graduated from high school
An 18-year-old graduated this weekend with his juris doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Jimmy Chilimigras, a Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, native and the oldest son of seven, completed high school at 12 and earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in accounting by 15. Chilimigras is considered the world’s youngest Certified Public Accountant and was projected to be the youngest law school graduate in Louisiana. According to Loyola, he excelled at the highest level, ranking in the top 2% in his class, earned the top grade in more than 40% of his courses, and is projected to graduate summa cum laude. Chilimigras was also named an Ignatian Law Scholar upon admission and will graduate as a William L. Crowe, Sr. Scholar, awarded to the top 10% of his class.He graduated with five certificates of concentration, including taxation law, social justice, immigration and citizenship law, international legal studies, and technology and entrepreneurship, a distinction believed to be unmatched at Loyola.He will attend Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law to pursue an LLM in taxation, making it his fourth degree before the age of 20.
An 18-year-old graduated this weekend with his juris doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.
Jimmy Chilimigras, a Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, native and the oldest son of seven, completed high school at 12 and earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in accounting by 15.
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Chilimigras is considered the world’s youngest Certified Public Accountant and was projected to be the youngest law school graduate in Louisiana.
According to Loyola, he excelled at the highest level, ranking in the top 2% in his class, earned the top grade in more than 40% of his courses, and is projected to graduate summa cum laude.
Chilimigras was also named an Ignatian Law Scholar upon admission and will graduate as a William L. Crowe, Sr. Scholar, awarded to the top 10% of his class.
He graduated with five certificates of concentration, including taxation law, social justice, immigration and citizenship law, international legal studies, and technology and entrepreneurship, a distinction believed to be unmatched at Loyola.
He will attend Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law to pursue an LLM in taxation, making it his fourth degree before the age of 20.
