GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Associate
• Associate Supervising Attorney HeLP Legal Services Clinic

Amanda Cole serves as the associate supervising attorney in the Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Legal Services Clinic, where she is responsible for supervising students who represent clients in a variety of civil public interest legal matters. Prior to joining the College of Law, Cole practiced law as a senior attorney with HeLP at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, where she advised and represented clients and educated interdisciplinary healthcare partners on legal and social issues that impacted HeLP clients. She began her career as a prosecutor for the Cook County State Attorney's Office in Chicago, Ill., and she also spent three years as an associate for a Chicago firm practicing medical malpractice defense. Cole is admitted to practice law in the State of Georgia and Illinois. She received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Ill., and her B.S. from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a native of the metro-Atlanta area.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Director of the Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies
• Director, Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies Administration / Leadership, Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies

Amy P. McCarthy (J.D. '02), director of the Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies, joined the department in October 2013. An Atlanta native, she earned her bachelor of the arts in international studies from Berry College. After a brief career as a paralegal at a Fortune 500 corporation and then a large law firm, McCarthy attended Georgia State College of Law as a part-time student, where she served as a member of Law Review and graduated cum laude. McCarthy practiced toxic tort litigation for five years at Powell Goldstein, now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. In this position, she also participated heavily in recruiting for the firm, including reviewing resumes, interviewing law students for summer positions and mentoring summer and junior associates. In 2007, she went to work for a small real estate litigation firm. Before joining the Center for Professional Development and Career Strategies staff, she worked as a staff attorney for Justice Carol Hunstein (now retired) at the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Job Titles:

• Board Member for the Society of American Law Teachers
• Professor

Andrea A. Curcio graduated with high honors from the University of North Carolina in 1988. She spent six years working as a litigation attorney in North Carolina. Curcio began her teaching career at Georgia State University College of Law in 1994 where she is now a full professor. She teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence and Civil Pre-Trial Litigation. She has written in the areas of tort reform (punitive damages), gender-related issues including sexual violence, sexual harassment and campus sexual assault, and legal pedagogy and assessment, including developing a survey instrument to help measure and tailor cultural sensibility learning outcomes, and bar exam reform. Curcio has served as a reporter for the Georgia Supreme Court Equality Commission when it examined how the Georgia justice system could improve its treatment of sexual violence victims. She is a frequent contributor to the Best Practices in Legal Education blog. In the spring 2007, Curcio was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach in China. While in China, she was appointed an honorary professor to South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. In spring 2008, she was named Professor of the Year at the College of Law and she won the Georgia State University Teaching Effectiveness Award. In 2010, Curcio was the university's nominee for the State of Georgia Regents' Teaching Excellence Award. In 2011, she was the inaugural recipient of the College of Law's David J. Maleski Teaching Effectiveness Award and in 2013-14, she was the inaugural recipient of the BLSA Bernadette Hartfield Faculty Award. In 2018, Curcio was a principal investigator in an AccessLex grant award study that looked at issues involving the LSAT and the bar exam. Curcio has served as a board member for the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and remains an active member of SALT's Committee on Issues in Legal Education. She has served on the University's Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Board, has served on ABA committees, and has engaged in various other academic and professional service. She is actively involved in the Atlanta metro area community, most recently working as a college advocate for under-privileged high school students.

Job Titles:

• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor Center for Law, Health & Society
• Professor

Dr. Anjali Deshmukh is an assistant professor of law, teaching administrative law, health law: quality and access, and patent law. Professor Deshmukh is an interdisciplinary pharmaceutical drug scholar who researches the impact of patent law, FDA law, and regulatory practices on patient health outcomes. She draws on quantitative empirical methods in addition to doctrinal analysis to understand the impact of FDA actions, particularly for children. In addition, Dr. Deshmukh is a board-certified pediatrician, providing care at Boston Children's Hospital Primary Care Center. Prior to coming to Georgia State University College of Law, Professor Deshmukh was a clinical research fellow at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She previously practiced pharmaceutical patent litigation group and cared for children and families at UCSF/Marin Health and Stanford Pediatrics. She earned her law degree from Stanford University, where she externed for the Honorable Lucy H. Koh in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

Job Titles:

• College of Law 's Human Resources Officer
• College of Law As a Student Assistant
• Member of the College

Anjelica Lymon is the College of Law's Human Resources Officer. She is responsible for the direction, planning, development, and implementation of Human Resources operations within the college. In her current role, she oversees all human resources matters related to Law School administrators, faculty, staff, adjunct and part-time instructors, graduate assistants, hourly student employees, and limited term/temporary employees. Anjelica manages the college's Human Resources Office staff. Her office provides support for faculty promotion, tenure and reappointment processes, employee recruitment and retention, and performance management. She serves as the college representative to the university's Human Resources Advisory Committee and is a liaison to the offices of the provost and president regarding faculty management and data reporting. She also assists the Dean and Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance with various functions including support for college accreditation. Anjelica joined the College of Law as a student assistant in November 1987. In January 1993, she was promoted to a regular administrative role. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics (1993) and Bachelor of Arts in psychology (2008). She earned a Master of Arts from Argosy University in 2012 majoring in Higher and Post-secondary education with concentrations in leadership, human resources, and higher education administration. Anjelica is a member of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, the Society for Human Resource Management, American Counseling Association, and the American Psychological Association.

Job Titles:

• Fellow of the American College
• Professor

Cassady V. "Cass" Brewer (he/him/his), professor of law, teaches Basic Federal Income Taxation, Nonprofit Organizations, Taxation of Business Organizations, Partnership Taxation, and the Law of Social Enterprise. Brewer's research primarily focuses on the legal and tax aspects of the intersection of tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations with for-profit enterprises and commercial activity. He speaks regularly on federal income tax topics as well as the legal and tax aspects of emerging "hybrid" business forms such as the benefit corporation and the low-profit limited liability company. Brewer received his LL.M. (Taxation) from New York University, where he served as graduate editor of the Tax Law Review. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. He co-founded the Nonprofit Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and he is a past co-chair of the Section. Brewer also has participated in drafting and amending the Georgia Limited Liability Company and Limited Liability Partnership Acts. Brewer currently serves as the Reporter for the Legislative Proposals Committee of the Nonprofit Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. Brewer is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and previously was a partner and practice leader in the Tax Group of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Job Titles:

• Assistant Vice President of Development Administration / Leadership
• Assistant Vice President of Development for Georgia State University College

Cassandra "Cass" Joseph is the assistant vice president of Development for Georgia State University College of Law, as of April 1, 2023. In this role, Cass leads the College of Law's fundraising for strategic priorities and has primary responsibility for directing efforts that encompass major and annual gifts, community engagement, corporate partnerships, and alumni affairs. Cass plays an important role in furthering Georgia State Law's local metro Atlanta, national and global relationships. She has over 20 years of experience in development and alumni relations, including leadership roles at Emory University and Emory Law, and most recently Spelman College. During her tenure at Spelman, Cass served as director of corporate relations and partnerships and was paramount to the college's successful $340 million capital campaign to surpass its goal two years ahead of schedule.

Job Titles:

• Board Member of the Atlanta Audubon Society
• General Counsel for the Cox Family Office

Charles Bowen recently retired as General Counsel for the Cox Family Office, where he was responsible for legal services including investment transactions, governance, compliance, and risk management. Before Cox Family Office, he was Managing Attorney at Cox Enterprises, responsible for investment transactions, governance, knowledge management, and ethics and compliance, including service as a public company compliance officer. Previously he served as general counsel and corporate secretary for Firearms Training Systems, supporting military and government contracts and programs. Prof. Bowen started his legal career as a U.S. Army JAG officer, with service in Iraq and Saudi Arabia as a civil-military operations coordinator, foreign claims commissioner, and POW camp advisor. Professor Bowen is a board member of the Atlanta Audubon Society, and has served as a member of the advisory board for executive programs at the Kennesaw State University Coles College of Business.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisory Board for the Academic and Professional Development Committee of the International Bar Association
• Professor

Clark D. Cunningham, professor of law and the inaugural holder of the W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics, is the director of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, a consortium of ethics centers at six universities, and the co-editor of the International Forum on Teaching Legal Ethics & Professionalism. He is one of the world's leading experts on teaching legal ethics and on reform in legal education. He designed and teaches two innovative courses that provide an accelerated transition to practice by teaching fundamental knowledge, skills and values needed to begin a legal career in a wide variety of settings: Fundamentals of Law Practice and Transition to Practice. In both courses, students appear in Superior Court representing domestic violence victims in civil protection order proceedings and do fieldwork with a private attorney working in a practice area of interest to them. He also teaches The Client Relationship, which satisfies the professional responsibility requirement. Cunningham has published more than 40 articles and book chapters, often drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. His article in the Iowa Law Review, applying semantics to analyze the ways the meaning of "search" has evolved in U.S. constitutional law, won the national Scholarly Papers Competition sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools. "Plain Meaning and Hard Cases," published in the Yale Law Journal and co-written with three linguists, was cited by the Supreme Court in deciding several cases analyzed in the article and has been described by Justice Ruth Ginsburg as the kind of scholarship judges value. He has also published in the Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal and Michigan Law Review (1999 and 1989). Cunningham is a member of the advisory board for the Academic and Professional Development Committee of the International Bar Association, having previously served as vice chair (research) for a two-year term. He is a founder and former convenor of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, an international organization of more than 700 law teachers, lawyers and leaders of nongovernmental organizations from more than 50 countries. He is a member of the Chief Justice of Georgia's Commission on Professionalism, served on the Fulton County Criminal Justice Blue Ribbon Commission and was co-reporter to Georgia's Commission on Indigent Defense. He has served as an expert on legal ethics in a number of major cases and has been appointed as a special master by the Georgia Supreme Court to adjudicate lawyer discipline cases. Cunningham has been an activist for social justice his entire career, beginning in 1975 as a community organizer in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Detroit, where he continued to live and work until 1987. After a career as a legal aid and civil rights lawyer, he began full time teaching at the University of Michigan Law School in 1987. From 1989-2002, Cunningham taught at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directed the Urban Law Clinic and the Criminal Justice Clinic. He has litigated a number of federal class action law suits, argued before the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and written friend-of-the-court briefs filed in the Michigan Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Job Titles:

• Associate Dean
• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Associate Professor of Law Administration / Leadership, Center for Access to Justice, Center for Law, Health & Society

Courtney Anderson, associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor of law, teaches Law and Social Welfare and Property. Her legal experience has been focused in the area of transactional law and community and economic development. Her position at Georgia State Law supports the university's Second Century Initiative, which focuses on interdisciplinary research into how law and policy might impact the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health, particularly among minority, low-income and vulnerable populations, and working with communities for favorable health outcomes. Anderson's research is focused on preserving affordable housing and eradicating the disparities in low-income and minority communities that exacerbate health issues. She is particularly interested in initiatives that pair community and economic development mechanisms with laws and policies to achieve health equity. She was a clinical fellow with the Harrison Institute for Affordable Housing and Community Development Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she represented low-income tenant associations in purchasing and rehabilitating multifamily housing units. Prior to joining the Harrison Institute, Anderson worked in the real estate group at Sidley Austin LLP, where her practice had an emphasis on corporate and financing transactions. Anderson received an LL.M. with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2006, and summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003.

LaVonda N. Reed, J.D., was appointed the seventh dean of Georgia State University College of Law effective July 1, 2021. Prior to her appointment at Georgia State Law, Dean Reed served as professor of law and associate provost for faculty affairs at Syracuse University. In this position, she had oversight of research and administrative leaves, awards, promotion and tenure review, policy development and enforcement among other duties. She led initiatives to recruit and retain a diverse faculty and created the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and the Center for Faculty Leadership and Professional Development, which helped further the work of Syracuse's National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant designed to support women and underrepresented minority scholars in STEM disciplines. Since joining Georgia State Law, Dean Reed has focused on five guiding principles-access to the profession; affordability of legal education; academic excellence in faculty scholarship, teaching, and career advancement; student and staff professional achievement; and active engagement of all stakeholders. These principles serve to focus the Georgia State Law community of faculty, staff, and students on the mission of the college into the next 40 years and beyond. Her research and teaching are in the areas of wills and trusts, property, and communications regulatory law and policy. Prior to her appointment at Syracuse University, she was on the faculty of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. She also was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and practiced communications and corporate law with the international firm of Paul Hastings LLP. Dean Reed earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Virginia.

Job Titles:

• Lecturer of Law Lawyering Foundations
• Member of the Lawyering

Before joining the College of Law faculty, Byrd practiced family law and general civil defense litigation with an Atlanta firm. She litigated and practiced the full spectrum of family law issues, and she also served as the lead attorney for the drafting and litigation of complex motions in family law and general civil litigation. She has represented clients in the Superior, State, Juvenile, and Magistrate Courts of Georgia, as well as the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals. Byrd graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she received a three year academic scholarship and served as Notes Editor of the Georgia Law Review. She was also awarded the Equal Justice Foundation Fellowship and the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Fellowship. Byrd graduated magna cum laude from Agnes Scott College with a B.A. in Women's Studies and a minor in German Studies. Erica Byrd is a member of the Lawyering: Foundations Program.

Job Titles:

• Director of Communications Administration / Leadership, Communications
• Director of Communications for Georgia State University College of Law

Jaya Franklin serves as the director of communications for Georgia State University College of Law. She first joined the College of Law as an assistant director of communications in 2014, and a few years later, she became an associate director of communications. Previously, she was a reporter for several local daily news outlets, a television producer for a local county cable access channel, and a communications manager for several non-profit organizations. Franklin has also worked with lawmakers on Capitol Hill for Bloomberg News. In 2010, she launched an online arts publication alongside her brother, where she serves as the editor and leads the magazine's college internship program. Franklin remains active with several non-profit and professional organizations in her free time. She is a former trustee for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a Super Crew Volunteer for the organization's annual events. Franklin completed two terms as the VP of Digital Media with the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists while leading their digital communications efforts and programming for #AABJDigital, a series of workshops offered to members to educate them on emerging digital trends and tools. In addition, Franklin served as the deputy director of the National Association of Black Journalists Region III chapter. She is also an active member and local organizer for the Online News Association (ONA).

Jeffrey H. Brickman owns his own firm and specializes in state and federal criminal defense. Before entering private practice in 2005, Brickman served as an assistant district attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1989 to 1997, during which time he exclusively prosecuted major felonies, including high-profile homicide, rape, armed robbery, child sexual and physical abuse, and fraud cases. For two of those years, he served as the chief of the Crimes Against Children Unit. From 1997 to 2004, Brickman served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes including fraud, drug trafficking, child pornography, and cyber-crime cases. In 2004, Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Brickman as DeKalb County District attorney. In this role, he was responsible for supervising the investigation and prosecution of over 6,000 felony cases. During his prosecutorial career, he was responsible for the preparation, investigation, and prosecution of more than 100 jury trials. Over his 30 year career, Brickman has dedicated a substantial amount of his time to the training and teaching of law enforcement, prosecutors, and defense attorneys.

Job Titles:

• Director of Academic Innovation Administration / Leadership

Katie Bridges is the Director of Academic Innovation under the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. She is responsible for advising and collaborating with faculty on instructional design projects while ensuring course designs meet faculty and ABA standards of quality. She is also responsible for managing the Academic Innovation team and cross-team members, including coordination around semester starts and exams. She will also manage services to support curriculum development at the Law School. Katie comes full time to the College of Law after being the embedded instructional designer from CETLOE since 2019. Prior to joining Georgia State, she spent 4 years at Georgia Highlands College as the Sr. Instructional Designer where she alone provided support for over 300 full and part time faculty. She is a supporter of Quality Matters and in addition to being a Certified Peer Review, she is a Certified Face to Face Facilitator of the Quality Matters Rubric course. Katie has participated in over 12 course reviews, both undergraduate and graduate, for QM at schools across the United States. She has extensive experience in designing courses which meet Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Creative Commons standards. Katie has degrees from Baker University, University of Maryland University College and is set to finish her dissertation at Valdosta State in Spring 2022. Katie is very family oriented. She and her husband, in addition to working full time, own a farm in NW Georgia where they commercially grow saffron and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Katie has two children and a miniature Schnauzer named Chewy.

Job Titles:

• Associate Dean for Law Library, Information Services
• Associate Dean for Library and Information Services

Associate Dean for Law Library, Information Services, Legal Technology & Innovation; Faculty Director, Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative Administration / Leadership, Law Library, Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative Kristina Niedringhaus, associate dean for library and information services and associate professor of law, has written and presented on topics including legal research, teaching methods and law library management. She joins the College of Law from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, where she was director of the law library and associate professor. Her publications include "Ethics Considerations Related to Legal Research Practices: A selective Annotated Bibliography," in Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2012); "Teaching Better Research Skills by Teaching Metacognitive Ability," in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (2010); and "Georgia Pre-Statehood Legal Research" in the book "Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide Including New York City and the District of Columbia" (2006). She also co-wrote several interactive Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) lessons on legal research. Niedringhaus is on the board of directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI); vice chair/chair-elect of the Society of Academic Law Library Directors and has served as chair of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. Throughout her career, Niedringhaus has taught first-year legal research and Advanced Legal Research. She previously served as associate librarian at Georgia State Law in the early 2000s.

Job Titles:

• Dean and Professor

Job Titles:

• Senior Director of Law Admissions
• Senior Director of Law Admissions Administration / Leadership, Admissions

Monique McCarthy, senior director of Law Admissions, joined the College of Law in May 2018. She previously served as the associate dean for enrollment management and communications at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; associate dean of admissions at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida, and assistant director of admissions-recruitment at University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. A native of Jamaica, McCarthy has more than 12 years of experience in law school admissions, financial aid, student affairs, marketing, and program management. She participates regularly in panels regarding law school admissions, advising, retention, and diversity matters. McCarthy has served on the Law School Admission Council Investment Committee and two terms on the Subcommittee for Misconduct and Irregularities in the Admissions Process. She earned a bachelor of the arts in International Relations and Communications at Cleveland State University College of Arts and Sciences, a master's in public administration at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, and her J.D. at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland.

Job Titles:

• College Facilities and Events Officer Administration / Leadership, Conference and Event Services

Natacha Peters joined the College of Law in March 2022 as a facilities and events officer. She oversees Facilities, Space Planning, Conference Center, and Event Services. Before joining the College of Law, Peters was the director of facilities and events for the School of Public Health. In the past, she also worked as a senior facilities manager at Georgia Tech. Peters received her B.S. in industrial organizational psychology from Manhattan College and an M.S. degree in facilities management from Pratt Institute. She is a certified Facilities Management Professional.

Job Titles:

• Associate Director of the Center for Professional Development
• Associate Director, Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies Center for Professional Development & Career Strategies

After earning her B.S. in psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 2004, Miller earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 2007, where she was a member of the Law Review. Early in her career, Miller was an associate attorney in the real estate finance department of Paul Hastings LLP. After that, and continuing for the next 10 years, Miller was a family law attorney at Richardson Bloom and Lines LLC. Miller has broad experience, having practiced in a large, international law firm and a small, boutique law firm. She is passionate about engaging with both students and alumni to strength their networking skills, to enhance their professional development, and to gain career prospects.

Job Titles:

• Associate Director of Admissions
• Associate Director of Admissions Admissions

Shantay Bennett, associate director of admissions, joined the College of Law in September 2005. As associate director of admissions, she manages and oversees the admissions and electronic processes of the J.D., LL.M., and M.J. programs; maintains budgetary expenditure reports; counsels and advises prospective and admitted students on departmental policies and procedures; oversees on-campus visitations; and engages in recruitment activities on a regional and national level. Bennett takes an active role in the College of Law outside of her admissions duties. She has served on the college's Staff Development & Relations Committee in addition to other ad hoc committees on campus. Bennett serves as the lead diversity recruiter and is a member of the Executive Planning Committee for the Gate City Bar Association's Justice Robert Benham Law Camp (a pipeline program for minority high school students) that is held annually at College of Law. She has served on the Georgia State University Staff Council as vice chair of the Community Relations Committee and is a member of the National Network of Law School Officers. In an effort to further integrate her skills, Bennett is a 2008 alumnus of the Advancement of Women's Leadership Academy for Women and received training in conflict management and resolution. Bennett also takes an active part in the community where she participates in numerous volunteer activities, and serves as both the treasurer and travel coordinator for her church.

Job Titles:

• Associate Dean
• Associate Clinical Professor, Associate

Associate Clinical Professor, Associate Dean for Student Success Programs & Strategic Enrollment Management Administration / Leadership, Center for Access to Justice, Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic Tameka Lester is an associate dean for student success & strategic enrollment management and an associate clinical professor at Georgia State University College of Law, where she teaches Basic Federal Tax, Tax Policy, and clinical courses. Tameka's work extends outside the university to various local and national organizations. She is a member of the Herzing University Legal Studies Program Advisory Board and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (known as VIIII-TA) Advisory Board, which is housed at the United Way of Greater Atlanta. She is also a member Atlanta Bar Association's Tax Section (where she was a member of the inaugural Sidebar class of 2019), the American Bar Association Section on Taxation's Publication Committee, and the co-chair for the American Association of Law School Section on Clinical Legal Education's Clinicians of Color Committee. Tameka's written works have been published in The Atlanta Lawyer, The Conversation, Procedurally Taxing, The ABA Tax Times, and Time Magazine. She speaks across the country to various groups about taxpayer rights and responsibilities, as well as issues of tax policy and how tax-related issues affect marginalized communities and communities of color. In 2017, Tameka served as the late, great GA Congressman and Civil Rights Icon John Lewis' expert witness for "The Taxpayer Experience with the Internal Revenue Service" hearing before the House of Representatives Way and Means Subcommittee on Oversight. A native South Carolinian, Tameka graduated from Winthrop University with a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Marketing Communication, the University of Phoenix with a Masters in Business Administration, and North Carolina Central University School of Law with her Juris Doctorate.

Job Titles:

• Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development Regents' Professor & Professor of Law Administration / Leadership, Center for Law, Health & Society

Lytton joined Georgia State University College of Law in 2015. He taught previously for 15 years at Albany Law School, where he was the Albert & Angela Farone Distinguished Professor of Law. He has been a fellow in the Harvard Program on Ethics and the Professions as well as the Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has done conflict resolution work in Central America and the Middle East.

Job Titles:

• Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance Administration / Leadership
• Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance, Is Responsible for Managing the Administrative Operations of the Law School

Before working at Georgia State University, he worked in fiscal management at Georgia Tech, Agnes Scott College, Kennesaw State University, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Travis is native of Decatur GA, former football student-athlete, and an avid Atlanta United Fan. His wife is also a practicing attorney. He received his B.S. in Management from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University. Travis Chambers, Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance, is responsible for managing the administrative operations of the Law School: Budget and Finance, Information Technology, Administrative Management, Faculty Support Services, Human Resources, Facilities/Space Planning, and Conference Center Management. He comes to the college most recently from GSU's School of Public Health.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of Law and Ethics

W. Lee Burge Chair of Law and Ethics; Professor of Law Center for Access to Justice, Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative, National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism