For Tina Nunes Ober, JD ’92, Suffolk Law has been a huge part of her life journey, and she is deeply committed to giving back to the school that has given her so much. She is also happy to know that she is helping students who are in the same kind of circumstances she was in as a law student.

“It has been truly rewarding for me to know that I am helping to train future attorneys who can make a difference for someone else,” Tina says. “The potential to impact so many lives for the better is inspiring.”

Tina’s career as a prosecutor spans more than 30 years, and she is currently serving as Managing Assistant District Attorney in the Economic Crimes Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “Being a DA for me has been the only job I would ever want as a lawyer. I have been able to make a difference for victims and for public safety, as well as giving second chances to offenders and juveniles to turn their lives around and become productive members of society.”

In addition to laying the foundation for her legal career, Tina says her Suffolk Law degree also gave her the chance to provide her kids with more opportunities than she had. It was a way for her to pay forward her parents’ love, hard work, and sacrifice.

Tina is honoring her parents by establishing a scholarship fund in their names—Maria and Edmundo Nunes. “They loved education so much and it was so important to them. They gave up everything they knew to immigrate to the United States so their children could have the education they were not able to have. They came to this country knowing no English, no harsh winters, and not much about American culture except that it would give their children an opportunity to climb out of poverty.” Tina is in the process of fully endowing the scholarship which will support students who seek to pursue a career as a prosecutor, something particularly important to her, given her own lengthy career as a DA.

“Prosecutors have been rather demeaned and dishonored in recent years to where fewer law students are seeking careers as prosecutors because media has told them we are bad people and responsible for convicting innocent people.” However, Tina sees her job as doing justice, and she wants “smart and honorable lawyers to whom I can pass this baton as I move into retirement in the coming years.”

Tina believes that it is 100% important to give back to Suffolk, and she leans into that through her time and talent as well as her financial support. She is a member of the Law School Alumni Board and the Law Dean’s Cabinet as well as a Dean’s Circle Member of the Summa Society, Suffolk Leadership Giving Program. She encourages her fellow alumni to find their own ways to support the school. “Anyone who can say that they have a better life due to their Suffolk education should try to give back even if it’s not a huge amount. It makes a difference for students.”