Lawyer Zags to Moving

Laura McHolm, North Star Moving Co.’s co-founder and marketing director, never set out to get into the moving business. After skipping several years of high school and enrolling in University of California at Berkeley at 16, McHolm began a career teaching programming on early Apple computers before getting her doctorate from the Santa Clara University School of Law and practicing as an intellectual property lawyer.

But after meeting her husband, Ram Katalan, who had experience in the moving industry, McHolm decided to go all-in, and she’s been running NorthStar with Katalan since 1994 and has since grown it to three states: California, Arizona and Texas.