Steven Hall

I started at Sinclair in 2005 as part of the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option, which is now the College Credit Plus Program. I took several criminal justice classes and decided I wanted to go to law school. My credits transferred to Syracuse University where I majored Public Affairs and Religion.  I attended law school at Washington & Lee University School of Law. After law school, I clerked for a circuit court in the City of Alexandria, Virginia;  prosecuted in Fairfax County, Virginia; and now I am the partner of a law firm Bezilla & Hall, PLLC. 

I originally wanted to be a police officer, and Sinclair exposed me to professors with real-world experience in that field. However, after I took Constitutional Law, I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer.  Shortly thereafter, I took a business law class at Sinclair, the rest, so to speak, was history.  

I started at Sinclair when I was in high school. It really taught me how to take responsibility for myself. I attended classes on my own and planned my own schedule. Simply put, Sinclair provided me the structure I needed to succeed with the freedom I needed to grow.  

When I was at Sinclair, I truly believed that you needed a title to prove you were serving the public. I wanted to be a police officer or a prosecutor because I thought that’s what you had to do to “serve.” Now, I know it’s not so simple. Sometimes service is being a police officer and arresting bad guys, and sometimes it’s that same officer simply being a friendly face. Sometimes service is prosecuting a defendant, and sometimes service is returning that same defendant’s phone call at 11:30pm because he’s worried about going to jail. Frankly, public service is often just doing your best and treating people respectfully.