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families and employers from time to time.
It’s important to work with them to achieve
balance with their families and support from
their employers. Without the readiness of
everyone, we are not able to do all we can.”

Becky Dohrmann pursuing
a different law career path
Rebekah (Becky) Solberg and Al Dohrmann
met in Grand Forks when both were
members of the UND School of Law Class
of 1993. Her father, Wayne Solberg, a
longtime Fargo lawyer, inspired her to pursue
a career in law. “In addition to his private
practice, he was the attorney for the City of
Fargo for many years,” she said. “I initially
thought I would like to do the same type of
work that he did.”

do helping find answers for North Dakota
constituents,” she said.
Although she and her husband chose to
pursue different career paths in the field
of law, she believes they were the right
choices for them. “They have been equally
rewarding,” she said.

Becky and Al Dohrmann at their graduation
from the University of North Dakota School
of Law in May 1993. They were married
after their second year of law school.

In law school she discovered she enjoyed
research and writing. “I know my father
would have welcomed me into his law firm,
and I know I would have enjoyed it, but
before I left law school I decided I didn’t
want to ‘practice law,’” she said.
Instead, her first job as a lawyer was as a
law clerk for the district judges in Fargo, a
position she held for nearly two years. Like
her husband, she was also a member of the
National Guard. She left her job with the
district court to take a fulltime position in
the Air National Guard’s human resource
office in Fargo as the equal employment and
labor law specialist.
She continued in that position after the
family moved to Bismarck in 1999, and until
2001, when the family moved to the Boston
area for a year while her husband attended
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
as a Department of Defense Fellow. Upon
returning to Bismarck, Dohrmann kept her
law license current, but chose to stay at home
to raise their four children. She retired from
the Air National Guard in 2007.
For the past three and a half years, she
has been a case manager for Senator John
Hoeven in his Bismarck office. “This job
does not require a law degree, but my legal
background is very helpful in the work I
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