Samantha Campbell

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By	Premade
Bon Chance High School	counsellor	Danielle Panabaker	Justice

Basic Stats

Full Name: Samantha Nicole Campbell
Nickname(s): Sami
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: December 22, 1991
Zodiac: Capricorn
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: Bon Chance, Louisiana
Grade: Junior
Extracurriculars: President: mock trial; debate team
Pet: None

Family

Father: Robert James Campbell (architect; b. October 9, 1967)
Mother: Pamela Susan Campbell (née Wright; bank teller; b. April 28, 1968)
Sister: Rachel Hannah Campbell (sophomore at BCHS; b. February 6, 1993)
Brother: Andrew William Campbell (eighth grader; b. July 30, 1995)
Brother: Tyler Joseph Campbell (sixth grader; b. December 31, 1996)

History

Both Robert Campbell and Pamela Wright grew up in Bon Chance, Louisiana. They were high school sweethearts, and they went to college together. After graduating from college in 1990, they got engaged. Just under a year later, on Valentine's Day 1991, they were married. That December, their first child, a daughter they named Samantha Nicole, was born. She was followed shortly by another daughter, Rachel, and two sons, Andrew and Tyler. Robert and Pamela were devout Catholics, and all four children were baptized in the Catholic church as infants. They wanted more children, but Pamela suffered a series of miscarriages from 1997 through 1999, and her doctor cautioned her against further pregnancies.

As the oldest, Samantha (who started going by Sami from a young age, because she couldn't pronounce her full name, and it just stuck) was given more responsibility to help Pamela with her sister and brothers. When Pamela got a job as a bank teller in 2002 after Tyler started kindergarten, ten-year-old Sami helped the babysitter around the house, entertaining her siblings, lending a hand in the tidying up of the house, and even helping out with the preparation of dinner. She was always sweet and charming about it, not minding that she was helping take care of her sister and brothers instead of spending time with her friends. After all, she saw her friends at school, and she still got to play with them some after school and on the weekends, too. And, of course, she had friends at church, and she was already volunteering there, even at ten.

From the time she could talk, Sami was like a budding lawyer. She managed to work out larger allowances and later bedtimes for herself and her siblings, and assisted the others in their admissions to their parents whenever they broke the rules or anything. She never counseled any of them to lie, but instead to be straight-forward and honest. A family friend was the first to suggest that she would make a great lawyer, and Sami took to the idea immediately. It sounded like the best idea in the world. She had always liked to have a plan, so she immediately started doing the research (at eight years old) on what she would need to do to become a lawyer. At twelve, she was researching what colleges were the best for what she wanted to do. She didn't want to be a criminal lawyer, that seemed like it bred dishonesty. Instead, she wanted to do something with environmental law.

Once she reached high school, she immediately gravitated toward both mock trial and the debate team. They were exactly what she needed, to help hone her skills as a budding lawyer-to-be. But at the same time, she didn't want her grades to slide (Yale, which she had decided was The College For Her, wouldn't want someone with sub-par grades), so she worked hard and, in her first two years of high school, never got anything less than an A- on anything. She had to sacrifice some of her social life in order to make time for everything, but her closest friends were also involved in some of the things she was — her best friend Ted was on the debate team with her, and her friend and neighbor Ben went to her church — so she still got to see her friends, and she made new friends through mock trial and debate, as well as through the volunteer work that she did through the church.

In the summer of 2008, Sami got a job as a waitress at Danny's Steak Shack, to help save up money for college and buy the occasional things that her parents didn't consider to be "necessities." She is positive that she'll find some way to balance her job, classes, mock trial, debate, and volunteer work, without her grades or performance anywhere else suffering. The one thing (other than classes and volunteer work, of course) that she certainly wouldn't give up, no matter what, is mock trial. Through the extracurricular, she has learned to put aside the "just say the complete and honest truth," or at least tempered it with a bit of lawyer-ese, learning how to phrase things such that they're not lies (and, in fact, still more honest than most other budding lawyers in mock trial), but that will more bend the truth. She is one of the best lawyers in the group, and as such was rewarded with being chosen as President of the club for her junior year. She also has an impeccable record not just in the mock trial court, but also outside of it.