BRENDA C. SEE
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law
B.S., M.S., J.D., University of Alabama
Brenda C. See is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law where she teaches Contracts. Dean See received her B.S. (1972) and M.A. (1974) degrees from The University of Alabama. In 1979, she received her J.D. from The University of Alabama School of Law where she was on the editorial staff of the Journal of the Legal Profession. After serving as the staff attorney for the Alabama Developmental Disabilities Advocacy Program from 1979 to 1981, she practiced law with the firm of Drake, Knowles & Pierce in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from 1981 to 1983.
Prior to joining the faculty of Jones School of Law in June 2000, Dean See was the Director of the Legal Writing Program at The University of Alabama School of Law. She has taught Legal Writing and advocacy courses for almost twenty years, beginning as an adjunct lecturer at The University of Alabama School of Law in 1986, and joining that Law School as a legal writing lecturer in 1993. She also taught as an adjunct professor in The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
Dean See and her husband, Associate Justice (retired) Harold See, are active members of First Baptist Church in Montgomery. They enjoy hiking, cross-country skiing and walking their dog, Jack.
Dean See is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Legal Writing Institute.
Publications
Written In Stone? The Record on Appeal and the Decision Making Process, 40 Gonz. L. Rev. 157 (2005).
Tying it All Together, 10 Perspectives 18 (2001).
Tools of the Trade: Practical Legal Writing for the 21st Century, 24 Law Prac. Mgmt. 58 (1998) (book review).
Legal Writing Through the Eyes of First-Year Law Students: Their 25 Rules for Survival, 6 Perspectives 92 (1998).
Briefing a Case in Reverse, 12 The Second Draft 2 (1997).