Like a lot of children, Al Bennett became interested in the law when he was assigned to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” by a schoolteacher when he was growing up in Ennis. But years later, an internship in Washington, D.C., truly put him on a path to a legal career.
While he was an undergraduate at the University of Houston, Bennett was one of a handful of students selected for the Mickey Leland Congressional Internship Program, which is sponsored by the Hobby Center for Public Policy at UH. During the spring of 1987, Bennett worked with U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-NY.
