FACULTY
JEFFREY R. BAKER
Associate Professor Jeffrey R. Baker is the Law School's Director of Clinical Programs. Professor Baker joined the Law School in 2006 after several years of practice in Mississippi. He practiced in health care regulatory counseling with the firm of Phelps Dunbar before joining Watkins & Eager in Jackson, Mississippi. There his trial and appellate practice involved medical malpractice, pharmaceutical and industrial products liability, insurance and commercial claims, sovereign immunity issues and diverse tort matters. He is a member of the Mississippi Bar Association and the Alabama State Bar and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Mississippi, Alabama state courts, and before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Baker received his undergraduate degree in political science and vocational ministry from Harding University and he received his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2000. In Mississippi, he served on the board of directors for two non-profit organizations, the Communication Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Northeast Mississippi and DREAM, Inc., an educational-resource and abuse-prevention corporation. He also taught American Constitutional History as an adjunct at Belhaven College.
At the Law School, Professor Baker directs the clinical programs and teaches and supervises the Family Violence Clinic, the Elder Law Clinic and the Externship program. He focuses his scholarship on social justice and public policy issues and legal history.
Professor Baker can be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7924 or by e-mail at jbaker@faulkner.edu.
CHARLES B. CAMPBELL
Professor Campbell joined the faculty in 2007. He graduated from Auburn University in 1988 with a degree in International Business and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1993. Following a judicial clerkship for the Hon. Emmett R. Cox on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Professor Campbell entered private practice in Montgomery and Birmingham.
In 2000, Professor Campbell became an Assistant Attorney General in the Alabama Attorney General’s office, where his practice focused on constitutional law and civil rights, with an emphasis on the First, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Amendments, state immunity, election law, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Spring 2002, he was a National Association of Attorneys General Supreme Court Fellow. In 2006, Professor Campbell became Deputy Chief Counsel to United States Senator Jeff Sessions, Chairman, and then Ranking Member, of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. His responsibilities included legislative analysis, drafting, and negotiations, management of hearings, and review of judicial nominations.
Professor Campbell teaches federal and Alabama civil procedure. In addition, he serves as President of the Board of Directors of Health Talents International, Inc., a nonprofit medical missions agency operating in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Professor Campbell can be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7528 or by e-mail at ccampbell@faulkner.edu.
TIMOTHY P. CHINARIS
Timothy P. Chinaris is Associate Dean for Information Resources and Professor of Law at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law where he teaches courses in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility and directs the law library. He previously served as Assistant Dean for Information Resources at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia and as Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida.
Professor Chinaris was Ethics Director of the Florida Bar from 1989-1997, where his responsibilities included overseeing the bar's popular "ethics hotline" service, which answers 20,000 phone calls per year from Florida Bar members. Professor Chinaris has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Florida State University, received his Juris Doctor with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law, and earned his master's degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. He is admitted to practice law in Florida and Texas. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Texas Court of Appeals. Professor Chinaris was an associate with the Dallas law firm of Godwin and Carlton, P.C. before accepting a position with the Florida Bar in 1986.
Professor Chinaris writes on legal ethics for various publications, and speaks to local, state, and national organizations on a wide range of professional responsibility issues. He is a member and past chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Florida Bar, a member of the Alabama State Bar UPL Committee, President of the Florida Bar's Out of State Division, and is active in legal and librarianship organizations. He served as an expert witness in the first case decided under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He authors the comprehensive legal ethics website "sunEthics.com."
Professor Chinaris can be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7214 or by e-mail at tchinaris@faulkner.edu.
MARY W. CRAIG
Mary Craig, Associate Professor of Law, joined the Jones faculty in August 2004 to teach Legal Research & Writing. Since then, she has added casebook courses to her teaching responsibilities, including Animal Law, the area in which her scholarship interests lie.
She received her B.A. in Human Communications from Abilene Christian University in 1983, graduating as Valedictorian. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989.
After clerking for a United States Magistrate for a year, she joined an insurance defense litigation boutique in El Paso, Texas. She later resigned her partnership in that firm to become a partner in Barrow & Craig, L.P., also in El Paso, where she maintained a general practice. In 1997, she accepted the position of staff counsel with CNA Insurance Companies in El Paso, Texas. In 2001, CNA moved her to Abilene, Texas to open a branch staff counsel office where she represented CNA insureds in east and central Texas and west into New Mexico. Just prior to joining the Jones faculty, Professor Craig was Assistant Criminal District Attorney for Taylor County, Texas, handling all Child Protective Services and Adult Protective Services cases, as well as protective orders and mental commitments.
She was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1989, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in 1990, and the State Bar of New Mexico in 1999.
Professor Craig may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7537 or by e-mail at mcraig@faulkner.edu.
A. JEROME DEES
Professor Dees joined the faculty at Faulkner University's law school after practicing law for three years with the law firm Huntley, Jordan & Associates in Mobile, Alabama. He is a graduate of Auburn University and Samford University's Cumberland School of Law. Professor Dees teaches Professional Responsibility, Contracts, Secured Transactions and Sports Law. His research interests include issues involving the intersection of race, sports and the law.
Professor Dees is a Staff Judge Advocate in the Air National Guard and has been admitted to the Supreme Court of Alabama, the United States District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Professor Dees is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association and the National Sports Law Institute. He currently serves on the Alabama State Bar Task Force on Allied Professions, and the Air Reserve Component Ethics Distance Learning Working Group. He is also Vice President of the Capital City Bar Association in Montgomery, Alabama.
Professor Dees is deeply involved in equipping and supporting long and short term missionaries from the Landmark Church of Christ with a particular focus on the African countries of Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
An avid athlete, Professor Dees is a half marathoner, spinner and yoga student.
Professor Dees may be contacted by telephone at 334.386.7534 or by e-mail at ajdees@faulkner.edu.
KENNETH F. DUNHAM
Kenneth F. Dunham is the Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program and Professor of Law at Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. He also directs the Law School's Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program. Professor Dunham is a certified mediator, arbitrator and trainer. Professor Dunham is Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Education Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and is a former member of the Education Committee for the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association.
Prior to accepting his current position at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Professor Dunham practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a J.D. degree from Atlanta School of Law, a Certificate in Dispute Resolution, a Masters degree in Dispute Resolution, and L.L.M. from Pepperdine University School of Law.
Professor Dunham is a member of the American Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the Association for Conflict Resolution, formerly Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Professor Dunham teaches Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Resolution Processes. He has written numerous articles on mediation and arbitration and serves on the Alabama State Bar's ADR Committee.
He may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7186, or by e-mail at kdunham@faulkner.edu.
CHAD D. EMERSON
Chad D. Emerson joined the faculty at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law in June 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Law after practicing for over five years with the Knoxville, Tennessee law firm of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Law in 2004. Professor Emerson is a graduate of David Lipscomb University and the University of Tennessee College of Law and is licensed to practice law in all state and federal courts of Tennessee.
Professor Emerson is a frequent lecturer and published author in the areas of land planning law, intellectual property law, and amusement & leisure law. He currently teaches Land Planning, Administrative Law, Pretrial Practice and Intellectual Property courses.
In addition to his teaching and research projects, Professor Emerson is also the administrator of the SmartCode zoning law listserv and is the editor of weblogs covering legal issues facing the amusement and leisure industry (www.themelaw.com) and land planning in the Central Alabama River Region (www.riverregionsmartgrowth.com). He is also the coordinator of the SmartCode Continuing Legal Education seminar and the annual Amusement & Leisure Law Symposium.
Professor Emerson is married to Betsy Dawson Emerson and they have two children, Owen and Dawson. They are active members at the Landmark Church of Christ in Montgomery.
Chad D. Emerson can be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7536, or by e-mail at cemerson@faulkner.edu . You can also visit Professor Emerson's site by clicking here.
JOHN J. GARMAN
Prior to coming to Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, John Garman was a solo practitioner in Nashville, Tennessee, with a focus on child advocacy and insurance law. Professor Garman also taught Business Law and Judicial Process courses at David Lipscomb University and served as pre-law advisor to Lipscomb students. Currently he teaches Constitutional Law, Employment Law and Children's Rights.
Professor Garman graduated cum laude with a B.A. from David Lipscomb University, in 1988, and earned his J.D from Vanderbilt University School of Law, in 1991. He adds to the international depth of the faculty, having earned his LL.M. (with distinction) in European Business Law from the Université de Droit, d'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2000.
His research interests include the comparative law of free movement of persons, and he has published in the area of juvenile procedure.
An avid fan of music and the arts, Professor Garman volunteers for the drum and bugle corps youth activity and enjoys attending drum corps and winterguard competitions throughout North America. At home, he often can be found practicing his trumpet or bass guitar. He is an instrument-rated private pilot and an amateur radio operator with an interest in Morse code communication and severe weather spotting.
Professor Garman was admitted to practice in the State of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
He may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7532, or by e-mail at jgarman@faulkner.edu.
DONALD W. GARNER
Professor Don Garner graduated cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review, Order of Coif and Chancellors (the UT legal society denoting the highest academic achievement). After clerking for the Texas Supreme Court and engaging in private practice in Dallas, Texas, he began teaching law at Southern Illinois University.
Professor Garner's legal career has principally been devoted to holding the tobacco industry accountable for the societal cost smoking imposes on the public. He has lectured and presented papers in academic and medical forums throughout the world. He has also received an unprecedented three grants, covering ten years, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in that connection represented the American Medical Society and other public health organizations by way of filing amicus curia briefs before various appellate courts. His work has been cited by the United States Supreme Court and has provided an important public policy foundation for the imposition of civil liability against the tobacco industry.
Professor Garner has been a visiting law professor at Pepperdine University and the University of Arkansas and has lectured at numerous law schools in Europe, New Zealand, Australia and China. he teaches torts to first-year students at the Law School.
Professor Garner can be reached by e-mail at dgarner@faulkner.edu and by telephone at (334) 386-7913.
JEFFREY B. HAMMOND
Jeffrey Hammond joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Associate Professor of Law. He received his bachelor's degree from Harding University in 1997. In 2001, he was a joint-degree graduate of Emory University's Law and Religion Program (now Center for Study of Law and Religion), receiving the J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Emory's Candler School of Theology. While at Emory, Professor Hammond served as a research assistant to John Witte, Jr. He also worked with the noted human rights scholar, Abdullahi An-Na'im and co-wrote the Introduction to An-Na'im's edited book, Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (Zed Books, 2002).
Professor Hammond practiced exclusively in the area of health care law from 2001 to 2007. From 2001 to 2004, he practiced at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. in Nashville, Tennessee, and from 2004 to 2007, he practiced at Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, LLP in Nashville.
Professor Hammond's research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and include the intersections of law and theology, law and bioethics, religious liberty, health law, and the philosophy of law.
Professor Hammond can be reached at jhammond@faulkner.edu or by telephone at (334) 386-7547.
JOCELYN E. HEDLUND
Jocelyn E. Hedlund joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Kansas ('95) and her J.D. from the University of Indiana School of Law at Bloomington ('01), where she was the Executive Editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.
After graduating from law school, Professor Hedlund practiced as an insurance coverage associate with Willoughby, Stuart & Bening in northern California. Before joining the faculty, she worked as an insurance coverage associate with Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, in the firm's Miami office. Professor Hedlund is admitted to practice in California, Alabama, and Florida, is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), and is also admitted to practice in numerous federal district and appellate courts.
Professor Hedlund currently teaches Legal Research and Writing and has been appointed as the Director of Academic Success. Her research interests include legal pedagogical issues and commercial insurance coverage issues. Professor Hedlund is an avid vocal musician, hiker, traveler, painter, gardner, and Kansas Jayhawks fan.
Professor Hedlund can be contacted at jhedlund@faulkner.edu or by telephone at (334) 386-7550.
SHIRLEY D. HOWELL
Professor Shirley Darby Howell attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, where she majored in Foreign Languages, concentrating her studies in Spanish and French. Her senior thesis, El Siglo de Oro, was written in Spanish and was permanently placed in the Houghton Library. Professor Howell graduated First in Class at Huntingdon and was awarded the distinguished Margaret Reid Medal of the College.
Professor Howell attended law school at night at Jones Law Institute, which was located on the campus of Huntingdon College and was overseen by the University of Alabama School of Law. While in law school, she developed interests in both poverty law and family law, interests that have defined and informed her career both as an attorney and a professor. She graduated Second in Class.
In 1981, Professor Howell accepted a position with the Legal Services Corporation of Alabama, a Federal program designed to provide indigent citizens with access to the legal system. This position afforded Professor Howell the opportunity to join a team of attorneys, from throughout the United States, who had been assembled to provide advocacy for Alabama's poorest citizens. Professor Howell concentrated her attention upon issues involving public housing for the poor. She continues to regard her experiences representing the poor as being among the most compelling experiences of her life as an attorney.
Professor Howell's private practice of law has been devoted to civil rights advocacy and to issues concerning family law. During her nineteen years of practice, she authored "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," Alabama Lawyer, Vol. 52, No. 4, July 1991; and "Psychotherapy and the Law," Alabama Lawyer, Vol. 56, No. 1, January 1995. She has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest professional rating for preeminence in her field of practice and for the highest levels of integrity.
Since 1983, Professor Howell has taught Family Law, Gender Discrimination, Children's Rights and numerous other courses at Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. She was chosen Professor of the Year in 1991 and again in 1996. A faculty office in the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law building bears Professor Howell's name and was donated in her honor by her students.
Professor Howell's interests include yoga, theatre, politics, and flying. She is presently studying for her private pilot's license.
Professor Howell may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7217, or by e-mail at showell@faulkner.edu.
JOSEPH L. LESTER
Professor Lester began his work with Faulkner in the Fall of 2000. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky. Professor Lester is certified by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) as a trial advocacy instructor. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Trial Advocacy. He also coaches the Law School's trial teams.
Professor Lester's research interests are in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Gaming Law. You may view Professor Lester's recent publications on this website.
Professor Lester serves as a deacon at the University Church of Christ. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Professor Lester may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7542, or by e-mail at jlester@faulkner.edu .
ADAM J. MACLEOD
Adam MacLeod joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Associate Professor of Law. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Gordon College (MA) and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Admitted in Massachusetts and Maine, Professor MacLeod litigated and tried cases in and around Boston while in private practice, provided pro bono legal services to indigent tenants, and advised various non-profit and non-governmental organizations.
Professor MacLeod writes about the law of end-of-life decisions and other areas in which positive law reflects jurisprudential assumptions. He teaches Property. A former and founding member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet in Boston, Professor MacLeod is an avid musician, runner, cyclist, skier, hiker, and Notre Dame partisan.
Professor MacLeod can be contacted at amacleod@faulkner.edu or by telephone at (334) 386-7527.
ROBERT L. McFARLAND
Robert McFarland received his B.A. from Oklahoma Christian University of Arts and Sciences and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law. While at Pepperdine, Professor McFarland was a member of the Pepperdine Law Review and received numerous trial and appellate advocacy awards. He was a national finalist in the National Moot Court Competition in 2000 and named best advocate in the competition. Professor McFarland now serves as the Director of Advocacy Programs at the law school and coordinates all student advocacy teams and competitions.
Prior to joining the faculty in 2004, Professor McFarland served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also practiced law in Texas as an associate at Winstead, Sechrest & Minick and in Arizona as a member of Ekmark & Ekmark. His practice focused on complex commercial litigation involving products liability, construction defect and related claims.
Professor McFarland teaches Torts, Remedies and Federal Courts.
Professor McFarland can be reached by e-mail at rmcfarland@faulkner.edu or by phone at (334) 386-7549.
JOI T. MONTIEL
Joi Montiel joined the faculty of Jones School of Law in 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Montiel now serves as the Director of the Legal Writing Program; she teaches Legal Research & Writing. Professor Montiel is admitted to the Alabama State Bar and is a member of the Legal Writing Institute.
Professor Montiel received her Juris Doctorate from Jones School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. Before accepting her teaching position at the Law School, Professor Montiel served as the Staff Attorney to Justice Harold See, Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Professor Montiel can be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7917 or by e-mail at jmontiel@faulkner.edu.
AMY MOORE
Assitant Professor Amy Moore joined the law school faculty in 2008 after working as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, Illnois. While at Kirkland, she practiced in securities fraud and credit card privacy cases. She is a member of both the Missouri and the Illinois State Bar. She is also a member of the American Bar Association.
Professor Moore received her undergraduate training from Harding University in political science and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, Professor Moore worked as a research assistant for Professor Lisa Bernstein as well as Judge Richard Posner. During her last year of law school, she was active in the appellate advocacy clinic and represented a client before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Currently, Professor Moore is teaching Admininstrative and International Law. Her research interests include Education Law and the intersection of Administrative Law with other subject areas.
Professor Moore can be contacted at ammoore@faulkner.edu or by telephone at (334) 386-7565.
CHARLES I. NELSON
Dean Nelson became Dean of Thomas Goode Jones Law School in 2004. He received his B.S. degree in Accounting from Abilene Christian University in 1962 and his J.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1965.
He practiced law in Waco, Texas, from 1965-1971, specializing in mortgage financing, banking and insurance law. In 1971, he joined the faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law. During his thirty-three years at Pepperdine, he served as Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, Director of the Overseas Program, and Interim Dean. He was named a Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 1993 and was appointed the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law in 2000.
He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association and is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and Senior Consultant to the Editorial Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Texas, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
Dean Nelson may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7220 or by e-mail at cnelson@faulkner.edu.
ANDY G. OLREE
Andy Olree joined the faculty of Faulkner University's Jones School of Law in 2005 as an Associate Professor of Law. He received a bachelor's degree from Harding University and the J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a staff member on the University of Chicago Legal Forum. He also served as a research assistant for Professor Richard Epstein and conducted directed research under Michael W. McConnell, now sitting on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Upon graduation, Professor Olree practiced law as an associate with the firm of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson in Chicago. In 1995, he joined the political science faculty at Harding University where for ten years he taught courses in law and government.
Professor Olree regularly teaches Constitutional Law I and II, as well as various seminars on legal theology and civil liberties. His research interests include the First and Fourteenth Amendments, U.S. legal history, legal theory, and the interaction of Christian theology and law. His book, The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration, was published by University Press of America in the summer of 2006. He has appeared as an invited speaker in several venues, including the Cato Institute and the Alabama Public Television program "For the Record." In 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Professor of Law.
Professor Olree can be reached by e-mail at aolree@faulkner.edu or by phone at (334) 386-7215.
THURSTON H. REYNOLDS
Thurston Reynolds graduated from New York University (LL.M. in Taxation, 1981), University of Texas (J.D., 1977), and Abilene Christian University (B.A., 1974). He teaches primarily tax and jurisprudence courses, but he has also taught corporations, partnerships, wills, trusts and remedies. He joined the Law School's faculty in May, 1989, bringing 11 years of experience practicing tax law in business-oriented firms ranging from Lubbock, Texas to Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York City. He was admitted to the bars of Texas, New York, Missouri and Alabama. He has been named the Most Outstanding Faculty Member, and he serves as a regular bar review lecturer for BARBRI.
As a member of the Texas Law Review, he published on the collateral source rule as 55 Texas L. Rev. 557 (1977). His recent publications include Natural Law Jurisprudence of the Sermon on the Law, 31 Ohio N. U. L. Rev. 231 (2005), and Helping Graduates Who Fail the Bar Examination, 6 T. G. Jones L. Rev. 1 (2002). His current research is directed toward on article tentatively titled A Proposal to Mitigate the Anti-Natal Effects of the Payroll Tax.
Professor Reynolds has been an Assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, and a deacon for Vaughn Park Church of Christ.
He may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7218, or by e-mail at treynolds@faulkner.edu.
P. LUEVONDA ROSS
Professor Ross joined the Jones School of Law faculty in August 2004 and is an Associate Professor of Law. She received her B.A. in English from Hendrix College and her J.D. from Temple University. She is a 1987 Rotary International Foundation Scholar and spent her year abroad in Spain studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. While at Hendrix College, she studied at the Birkbeck College of London University and in the Washington Semester Program at American University.
Prior to joining Jones School of Law, Professor Ross practiced law in Arkansas. Her practice has consisted of public service as a staff attorney with Central Arkansas Legal Services, as a law clerk to a Pulaski County Circuit Judge, as a solo practitioner, as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the 11th Judicial District-West and for the 10th Judicial District, as an Assistant Attorney General and finally as the Deputy Attorney General of the Medicaid Fraud Department of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office. Professor Ross was an adjunct professor in the trial advocacy program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. In addition to teaching, she coached the trial team. She has been an adjunct professor in the political science department at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Professor Ross teaches Criminal Law, Pre-Trial Practice, and Trial Advocacy.
She is a member of the New Harvest Church of Christ.
Professor Ross may be contacted by e-mail at lross@faulkner.edu.
BRENDA C. SEE
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 is a member of the Alabama Bar Association, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Legal Writing Institute. She may be contacted by telephone at (334) 386-7515, or by e-mail at bsee@faulkner.edu.
MATT VEGA
Matt Vega joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Associate Professor of Law. He received his B.A., summa cum laude with College Honors, from Freed-Hardeman University ('90) and his J.D. from Yale Law School ('93), where he was Executive Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and a member of the Yale Moot Court Board.
After law school, Professor Vega practiced law as an associate with the firm of Sirote & Permutt, P.C. in Birmingham. In 1997, he went in-house with one of the firm's largest clients Bruno's, Inc. to manage their litigation. He then moved to Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc. in Spartanburg, South Carolina to handle all labor and employment law matters for their various restaurant chains nationwide, including Denny's.
In 2000, he and his family returned to his hometown of Memphis where he worked as a trial lawyer in the employment litigation group of the FedEx Legal Department. In 2003, he began working with the FedEx Legal Department's regulatory group and was promoted to Senior Counsel in 2006 specializing in international anti-terrorism and anti-corruption laws.
He is a member of the State Bars of Alabama and Tennessee and the American Bar Association (ABA). He is admitted to and has practiced before numerous federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
Professor Vega is currently teaching Civil Procedure and Pre-Trial Practice and will be teaching Business Associations in the spring. His research interests include international regulatory compliance and business ethics as well as church/church leader liability issues. He has appeared as an invited speaker in several international forums including the World Customs Organization in Brussels, the APEC 2006 Vietnam Summit and various church-affiliated venues.
He is a member of the Prattville Church of Christ.
Professor Vega may be contacted by e-mail at mvega@faulkner.edu.