Abigail Alice Olson and John Michael Powers were married Sept. 8 at Brittland Manor, an events space in Chestertown, Md. Thomas P. Olson, the bride’s father and a Universal Life minister, officiated.
Ms. Olson, 30, is a third-year student at Yale Law School in New Haven. She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College.
The bride’s parents live in Bethesda, Md. Her father is a staff lawyer in the investigations division of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement in Washington. She is also a daughter of Jocelyn F. Samuels, who is the executive director of the Williams Institute, a research and policy center for sexual orientation and gender identity issues at the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mr. Powers, 34, is a counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, which is in Washington; he works in its voting-rights project. He graduated from Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., and received a law degree from Georgetown.
He is a son of John J. Powers of Bradenton, Fla., and the late Carmen Animagi Powers. The groom’s mother was a marketing professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester. His father retired as an advertising and marketing consultant, also in Rochester.
The couple met when both were working as civil-rights analysts at the Justice Department in Washington, and began dating about a year later.
