Michael Y. Scudder clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in his first year out of law school. He served as a legal adviser in the George W. Bush White House for three years. But the first large influence on Scudder’s interest in public service came at Northwestern University School of Law during the early days of the Medill Innocence Project. “I was a big admirer of the professor who was in the middle of all that,” Scudder said about Lawrence C. Marshall, the then-Northwestern …