November Featured Member
Endia Sowers Paige is the Outreach and Research Services Librarian at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library at the University of Georgia. In this role, she develops and coordinates the law library’s outreach and marketing efforts. She also teaches legal research to the first-year law students. Prior to working at UGA, Endia has held positions at George Mason University, Howard University, and the Law Library of Congress.
Endia earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from the University of South Carolina. She went on to earn a Master of Library Science and Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from the Howard University School of Divinity.
Endia is a member of AALL (RIPS-SIS, ALL-SIS), SEAALL, the Atlanta Law Libraries Association, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading, and visiting museums.
October Featured Member
Cornell H. Winston is the Law Librarian / Records Center Supervisor for the United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California. He has been at the US Attorney’s Office since August 2001, an office with almost 300 attorneys. Cornell has over 30 years of library experience working at a law school (Whittier College School of Law) and two law firms (Munger, Tolles & Olson & Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe).
Cornell is the chair of the Library Advisory Group for the United States Attorney Offices which provide library support for the US Attorney’s Office’s that don’t have professional librarians. He has taught legal research classes for many years for Department of Justice support staff at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
Cornell is active in the American Association of Law Libraries having served on the AALL Executive Board (2006 – 2009), various AALL committees, and is a former chair of the Black Caucus (2011 – 2012). Cornell is also a member of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries where he has served on several committees, and was SCALL President (2001 – 2002).
Cornell is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Cornell serves as Associate Pastor for Education Ministries at Santa Clarita Christian Fellowship in Canyon Country, California. He has been married to his wife Cynthia for 26 years and has two adult daughters, Christina & Chelsea.
September Featured Member
Dawn Smith is the Head of Collection Management Services at Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, William M. Rains Library. She is responsible for the operations of the collection management services department, which includes acquisitions, serials, processing and cataloging. Dawn is an active member of AALL, SCALL, SCIUG. She has served on several committees and is currently a new incoming member of the BCAALL executive board as the Secretary. Dawn received her MLIS from the University of North Texas, and her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University - Commerce.
August Featured Member
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July Featured Member
Alicia Jones is an Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois. She joined the SIU Law Library faculty in January of 2013, and teaches legal research as part of the first year Legal Research and Writing program. In her role as Reference Librarian, Alicia provides reference and research assistance to law faculty, students, and members of the public.
Prior to joining SIU Law Library, Alicia served as a Reference Associate at the Pritzker Legal Research Center of Northwestern University School of Law, and as Cataloging Librarian at the Moraine Valley Community College in Chicago. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Black Caucus of AALL (BCAALL) serving as a member of the George Strait Minority Scholarship Dinner Planning Committee from 2013-2015, Academic Law Libraries SIS (ALL-SIS), Research, Instruction, and Patron Services SIS (RIP-SIS), serving on the RIPS Teach-In Kit Committee since 2014, and Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL). She received her M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois in 2010, and her J.D. from Howard University in 1995. In her spare time, Alicia enjoys reading and listening to music. She and her husband, Derrick, just celebrated twenty years of marriage.
June 2016 Featured Member
Malikah Hall graduated from North Carolina Central University with a J.D./M.L.S. joint degree in May of 2015. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Chicago State University in 2005 in her hometown of Chicago, IL.
Malikah is the first Diversity Fellow at t Cornell University Law Library in Ithaca, N.Y. Her additional titles include Research Librarian and Lecturer-in-Law. She is a faculty liaison, reference librarian, social media manager, and law library committee member. Malikah teaches the research portion of the Lawyering class which is the functional equivalent of the 1L Legal Research and Writing Course. In the Fall, she looks forward to teaching her first advanced legal research course titled Research and Analysis in Law Practice.
Malikah is an active member of AALL (RIPS-SIS, ALL-SIS, and PEGA-SIS), Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY), BCAALL (including the Nominations Committee, Locations Committee, and Community Service Committee), and will serve as a team member for the 2016-2017 AALL Annual Program Planning Committee.
In her spare time she enjoys snuggling with her 1 year old dog (he’s still a wee puppy to her), Midi, reading, eating well, and traveling.
May 2016 Featured Member
Shamika Dalton began working at the University of Florida Levin College of Law Legal Information Center in August 2012 as a Reference Librarian. Very recently, Shamika was promoted to Head of Reference Services at the Legal Information Center. She also teaches First-year Legal Research and Advanced Legal Research as an UF Adjunct Professor. Shamika, a triple alumna from North Carolina Central University, received her B.S.W. in 2004 and her J.D. and M.L.I.S in 2011.
Shamika is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Black Caucus of AALL (BCAALL), Academic Law Libraries SIS (ALL-SIS), Research, Instruction, and Patron Services SIS (RIPS-SIS), and Southeastern Chapter of AALL (SEAALL). She is currently the Chair of the AALL Diversity Committee and Co-chair of BCAALL’s Nominations Committee. Most notably, Shamika is the Editor of the forthcoming publication, Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries 2d.
April 2016 Featured Member
Phebe Huderson-Poydras is the founding Associate Dean for Library Affairs and Assistant Professor of Law at Indiana Tech Law School. Professor Poydras is responsible for the overall management of the library. Prior to joining Indiana Tech Law School, she was the Director of the Florida A& M University College of Law Library. She has taught Professionalism, Advanced Legal Research, Legal Research and Legal Methods. Poydras received a Master in Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University in 1998 and a Juris Doctor from Southern University Law Center in 1995.
She is both active professionally and in the community. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries, the American Libraries Association and Special Libraries Association. Poydras is also the president of Zonta Club of Fort Wayne, member of the Executive Committee of the Fort Wayne Chapter of the NAACP, member of the Women in the NAACP (WIN), member of the Arts United Board and a member of The Links Incorporated.
March 2016 Featured Member
Tiffany Camp is currently a
student in the Master of Library and Information Science Law Librarianship
program at the University of Washington. As a Law Library Intern at the
University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, she provides
reference and research assistance to the law school students, faculty, staff
and public patrons. She also works at the University of Washington Suzzallo
Graduate Library as a Preservation Survey Assistant. Prior to her enrollment in
graduate school, Tiffany worked as a Library Assistant for Access Services at the
University of Connecticut School of Law and as a Branch Manager at Hartford
Public Library.
Since joining the Black Caucus in
2012, Tiffany has participated on the Community Service Committee and has
co-chaired the committee for the past two years. Within the American
Association of Law Libraries, Tiffany is a member of ALL-SIS Public Relations
Committee and RIPS-SIS Patron Services Committee. Tiffany also enjoys her role on the
Professional Development Committee of the Law Librarians of Puget Sound (LLOPS).
Tiffany earned her B.A. from the
University of Virginia and her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School
of Law. In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys tennis, digital photography and
spending time with her husband and American Cocker Spaniels.
February 2016 Featured Member
Errol Adams joined Pace Law School Library as the Electronic Services/Reference Librarian in January 2016. In this role, he develops and manages online research guides, serving as the content editor for the Library’s website, the Library’s portion of the intranet, and all social media. He was previously the law librarian at The College of The Bahamas in Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas. In that position he managed the Law Collection, assisted in coaching the Vis moot court team, and contributed to marketing the law collection. Errol also worked in several other libraries, including Kaye Scholer LLP, the New York State Unified Court System’s Civil Court, the New York City Department of Correction on Riker’s Island, and Reed Smith LLP.
Errol is an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL), where he served on committees. He is also a member of the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) for which he has served on the executive board.
In 2003, Errol received his J.D. from Touro Law Center, where he served as Business Editor of Touro International Law Review. He went on to earn a master’s degree in library and information science from St. John’s University in 2011. Errol holds a bachelor of arts in judicial studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
January 2016 Featured Member
Zanada Joyner joined the Alexander Campbell King Law Library (University of Georgia) as a Research and Instructional Services Librarian in July 2015. Originally from New Jersey, Zanada pursued her undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in the South— Loyola University New Orleans (BA, 2000 and JD, 2007), and the University of Mississippi (MA, 2002). The master’s degree mentioned here is in Education. Her intention was to become a high school principal. With that line in mind, she began teaching English, first at the high school level, and later, as an adjunct professor. Zanada’s career path has moved her from place to place and position to position, but she ended up heading home to New Jersey eventually. It was there—while working as a solo practitioner and teaching at a local community college—that she was encouraged to attend library school (Rutgers, MLIS, 2015). She took that advice to heart and, in October 2013, returned to the Loyola University New Orleans—this time as an employee in the law library. After almost two years there providing reference services, Zanada moved to Athens, Georgia for her current position. As a part of her daily duties, Zanada provides research assistance to faculty and students. She also organizes “lunch and learn” sessions, gives in class presentations and supervises the student research assistants. In the Spring, she looks forward to teaching an advanced legal research course. In her free time, Zanada enjoys hanging out with her yorkipoo, McKenzie, reading, cooking, and traveling.
December 2015 Featured Member
Juanita T. Harrell is fairly new to the librarian profession. She began her career in library land in January of 2010 by volunteering at the Harold Washington branch of the Chicago Public Library. This is also the time that she started library school at Dominican University in River Forest, IL where she completed her degree in 2012. She started her first library job as an intern at the Oak Park Public Library in 2010 and eventually became a teen services librarian at Oak Park Public Library in 2012. Prior to entering the library field Juanita worked as a paralegal. When she saw an opening at the DuPage County Courthouse Law Library she thought it would be a great opportunity for her two worlds to come together. She has been a law librarian at the DuPage County Courthouse Law Library since 2013 and will be there 3 years in February.
Juanita has been a member of AALL for almost three years and this is her first time serving on a committee. She is currently serving on the BCAALL community service committee and the BCAALL scholarship committee. She is a member of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries where she is currently serving on the CALL bulletin committee. She also recently became a legal community member of the DuPage County Bar Association.
In her spare time, Juanita enjoys cooking, baking, reading and writing poetry. She competed in the 2014 Daily Herald Cook of the week challenge making it all the way to the final four.
November 2015 Featured Member
In October, Dwight King celebrated 34 years as a law librarian. He began his career as a reference librarian at the University of Baltimore Law Library in 1981 and moved to the University of Notre Dame Law Library in 1986. Dwight has worked at Notre Dame ever since, serving as head of reference for many years, and now assuming a new role as associate director. Dwight has also been a member of the law school’s admissions committee since 1988 and is the long-time faculty advisor for the Notre Dame Black Law Students Association. He has been the university’s ombudsperson for discriminatory harassment for over a dozen years.
Dwight has been a member of several AALL committees. He has served as chair of the Leadership Development, Grants, and Recruitment committees. He was the second chair of the Committee on Minorities and the first chair of the Black Caucus. One of the highlights of his AALL activities was serving as master of ceremonies at the closing banquet of the 2004 Annual Meeting in Boston.
In his spare time, Dwight enjoys bicycling (he recently completed his 65th century ride) and wood carving. He was excited to have an exhibit of his folk art carvings at local museums in 2011 and 2012. Dwight and his wife, Mary, have four children.
October 2015 Featured Member
Janice E. Henderson, a law librarian with multiple years of experience has spoken on several panels regarding law librarianship and legal research for attorneys and paralegals. She has an M.S. in Education, M.L.S. and J.D. degrees. In her role as a professor, she taught at St. John’s University Library Science Graduate Program and CUNY Law School. The majority of her career has been as a library director or manager in law firms and is currently serving as a Law Library Consultant and Trainer.
In her role with professional development, Janice has chaired or co-chaired PLI’s annual program and webinars for law librarians since 1997. She is a member of both local and national library associations: Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
In her service to both associations, Janice served as President of LLAGNY, an Executive Board Member for AALL, a term as Executive Board Member of LLAGNY and most recently finished a term as Chair of the AALL Bylaws and Resolutions Committee in 2014-15. Janice has also served since 2010 as a committee member and program coordinator for the annual PLLIP Summit. She will continue supporting her colleagues as an Executive Board Member for the Black Caucus of AALL, 2013-16.
September 2015 Featured Member
Clanitra Stewart Nejdl is a Reference & Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) College of Law in DeKalb, Illinois. Clanitra joined the NIU College of Law Library faculty in May 2014. She provides legal reference and research assistance to faculty, staff, students, and other library visitors. In addition, she teaches both basic and advanced legal research classes.
Prior to joining the NIU College of Law Library faculty, Clanitra practiced law at the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center in Columbia, SC, where she provided local and statewide policy advocacy on behalf of low-income communities in the areas of affordable housing, homelessness, hunger, and community economic development. She was also an attorney at the Georgia Legal Services Program in Macon, GA, where she represented indigent clients in a variety of civil cases.
In addition to being a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, Clanitra is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, and the Chicago Association of Law Libraries. She is also admitted to the Georgia Bar and the South Carolina Bar.
August 2015 Featured Member
Ulysses N. Jaen joined the Ave Maria School of Law in August 2012, bringing over 30 years of experience to the School. He has worked as an entrepreneur, business manager and legal professional and has presented at numerous conferences, and for various organizations and agencies.
Prior to joining the Law School, Ulysses worked for the Law Offices of Angotti & Straface from 2006 to 2009 and Hamstead, Williams & Shook from 2009 to 2012. He worked at the West Virginia University College of Law Library from 2005 to 2012 and lectured on a variety of Advanced Legal Research topics. He also taught in the WVU Master’s in Legal Studies and the WVU Master’s in Public Administration Programs.
Professor Jaen was a Court appointed mediator and is a Special Advocate for abused and neglected children. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Hispanic Bar Association, the South Eastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries where he served as chair of the Diversity Committee Executive Board.
July 2015 Featured Member
Kelley Hayes Martin is the Library Manager at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, plllc. Ms. Hayes Martin has more than twenty years' experience working in a law firm library setting. She is integral in the integration of new employees through initial orientation on the library resources including coordination of training on online services. She provides on-going instructional guidance to users, including searching online services and research in print material.
Ms. Hayes Martin performs in-depth research in a wide range of areas including legal research, competitive intelligence, patent, scientific and technical research.
Ms. Hayes Martin earned her Masters of Library and Information Science from the Catholic University of America and is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Law Librarian Society of the District of Columbia.
June 2015 Featured Member
Femi Cadmus is the Edward Cornell Law Librarian, Associate Dean for Library Services and Senior Lecturer in Law at Cornell Law School. She has more than twenty years of experience in law libraries and before coming to Cornell was Associate Law Librarian for Administration and Lecturer in Legal Research at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. Prior to this, she was in a similar role as Associate Law Librarian at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
Her professional library experience began at the University of Oklahoma Law Library and spans both academic and law firm libraries where she has taught legal research to law students, attorneys, and paralegals. Her educational background includes an LL.B. from the University of Jos, Nigeria, B.L from the Nigerian Law School, LL.M. (Law in Development) from the University of Warwick, England, and M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.
She is a member of the New York Bar and is active in regional and national library associations including the American Association of Law Libraries (in which she currently serves on the Board). Her publications and presentations cover topics such as current legal research methods , the evolving role of the 21st century law library, open access to legal information, and law library management and administration.
May 2015 Featured Member
Trina Holloway is the Acquisitions/Serials Librarian at Georgia State University Law Library. She is responsible for the operations of the technical services department, including acquisitions, processing and updating of serial publications and bindery.
Trina is an active member of AALL, SEAALL, ALLA and NASIG. She has served on several committees and is currently the Immediate Past Chair of BCAALL. Recently Trina was awarded the Rose Robischon Scholarship form NASIG.
Trina received her MLIS from Clark Atlanta University and her undergraduate degree from the University of West Georgia.
April 2015 Featured Member
Druet Cameron Klugh is the Senior Reference Librarian and Bibliographer at the University of Iowa Law Library. A native of small-town Iowa, she has also lived in Pennsylvania, Mexico, Taiwan, Beijing, New York City, New Jersey, and Colorado, and has been back at her alma mater for 10 years. Law librarianship has taken her through employment at Westlaw, big city law firms, and academia. Memorable experiences include viewing the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor from a client’s offices in Tower Two at the first World Trade Center and getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the U.S. Supreme Court while visiting Justice Byron White’s chambers to teach him computerized legal research. Her professional trajectory took her to larger and larger law libraries, and now she truly feels that she works in a “candy store” of the profession because of the breadth and depth of the UI Law Library’s collection.
Druet got her undergraduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literature as well as her law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Her library degree is from the University of Illinois where she loved having classmates from around the world in the LEEP distance ed program, as well as visiting unique parts of campus such as the Mathematics Library in Altgeld Hall with its Victorian floors of block glass to let in light, the underground Undergraduate Library and the adjacent Morrow Plots experimental corn fields, which are the oldest in the United States.
Druet is active in BCAALL and MAALL. She has chaired the BCAALL Nominations Committee for the last two years, and enjoys getting to know other BCAALL members through its activities.
March 2015 Featured Member
Meldon D. Jenkins-Jones is the law librarian at the Richmond Public Law Library.
A native of New York City, Meldon’s vibrant career has spanned both the legal and information studies fields.
Her legal career began while working in the Mayor’s Policy and Development Office in Newark, NJ. She then practiced in Landlord-Tenant Court while employed at the Newark Housing and Redevelopment Authority. Meldon gained invaluable training and experience as the second female African American Assistant Prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey. After a brief stint as the Director of Intergovernmental and Congressional Affairs, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region 2, Meldon opened her own solo law office where she maintained a general practice from July 1981 through 2003 when she retired.
Meldon has had the pleasure of stretching her work activities at RPL to include time as the Interim Community Services Manager for the West End Branch as well as the initiation of two Writers Groups, one of which—the Main Writers Group—she still facilitates, and a literacy program for African American male teens called Black Male Emergent Readers (BMER).
In 2013, Meldon initiated the Community Law Series of classes for the general public on such topics as Estate Planning, Teen Empowerment, Starting a Business, and Workers’ Compensation. BMER and the Community Law classes have earned Meldon recognition from the City of Richmond—a Tri-annual Rise! Achievement Award and a 2014 Annual Mayor Award. Meldon also earned a Certificate of Completion of the City’s Aspire Career Development Series.
Meldon is an active member of the Virginia Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries—where she is a member of the Diversity Committee as well as the Black Caucus, and a contributor to the AALL Spectrum online Blog—and the Virginia Association of Law Libraries where she is a new Director and a member of the Access to Justice Committee. She is also a member of the American Library Association.
Meldon completed her Bachelors degree at Smith College, where she majored in Russian Civilization and minored in Black Studies and Physics. She went on to graduate from Rutgers University School of Law – Newark with a J.D. Meldon received her Masters degree at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies.
Meldon’s greatest interests are her two children--Meldon and Alexander—and three grandchildren. (Meldon’s husband of 28 years, Rev. Rayford Jones, passed away in July 2014.) Her daughter Mel is currently pursuing her M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs at American University and her son Alex is in law enforcement. In her spare time, Meldon also enjoys writing and traveling and has visited Poland, Russia, Canada, and a few Caribbean islands.
February 2015 Featured Member
Allen Moye is Associate Dean for Information Technology and Library Services at DePaul College of Law in Chicago, IL. In addition to supervising the college of law's technology support team, Professor Moye serves as Director of the Rinn Law Library, and is responsible for the financial management and quality of library services and research support offered to faculty, students, alumni and other patrons of the law library. He also coordinates legal research instruction to First-Year students, and teaches a class in Advanced Legal Research.
Professor Moye is an active member of the faculty having served on the College of Law’s Committees on Faculty Recruitment; Diversity; Facilities, Technology, and Online Learning; Self-study and Academic Program Review; and Strategic Planning. He has also served on the university's Physical Environment, and Teaching, Learning and Technology committees, as well as the President's Diversity Council. He is a past advisor to the College of Law's Black Law Student’s Association, and a past recipient of the Deans’ Excellence in Staff Service Award.
Professor Moye has served as chair of AALL’s Committee on Diversity, and on the Annual Program Planning and Nominations Committees.
Professor Moye is a graduate of Howard University and received his MLIS from The Catholic University and his JD from University of Richmond. He served as Reference Librarian at University of Richmond, from 1994-98, and then as Associate Director for Public Services at George Mason School of Law from 1998-2004, before arriving at DePaul in January 2005.
Professor Moye was among 32 law librarians nationwide featured in “Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries” by Carol Avery Nicholson, Ruth Johnson Hill & Vicente E. Graces, (William S. Hein & Co., 2006).
Prof. Moye is a proud grandfather of two, who enjoys travel and cycling.
January 2015 Featured Member
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Joyce A. McCray Pearson has recently been named the new Director of the Washington University School of Law Library and an Associate University Librarian within the Washington University Libraries system, effective February 1, 2015. Pearson currently serves as Director of the Wheat Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kansas. An expert on law and literature, civil rights, and diversity issues, Pearson will also serve as a Senior Lecturer in Law at Washington University.
Pearson has written numerous chapters and articles on the subjects of diversity; historical and current perspectives on civil rights; law and literature; and law librarianship. Her most recent publication, “Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted,” discussing the difficulty in quantifying library services, was published in MAALL Markings, the newsletter of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries.
Pearson received her Master of Librarianship and Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington and her JD from Washburn University School of Law. After law school, she was a solo practitioner focusing on family law matters. Pearson then served as Reference Librarian at the University of Louisville from 1990 to 1994. She joined the KU Wheat Law Library in 1994 as an Electronic Services Librarian, was promoted to Associate Director in 1995, and was appointed Director and Associate Professor of Law in 1997.
Joyce is married with three adult children and a grandson named Josiah. She is an avid reader, musician, loves to travel and loves all kinds of animals.
December 2014 Featured Member
Nichelle “Nikki” Perry is the Library Director at North Carolina Central University School of Law. She has served as the Assistant Director of the Law Library since 2010. Prior to this, she served as the Reference/Electronic Services Librarian at the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Reference Instructional Librarian at the NCCU School of Law Library. Nikki teaches Advanced Legal Research.
Nikki received her Master of Library Science and Juris Doctor degrees from North Carolina Central University and her B.A. from State University of New York at several library committees including the AALL Diversity Committee and the BCALL Community Service Committee.
November 2014 Featured Member
Ronald E. Wheeler serves as director of the Moakley Law Library at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Wheeler, a recognized leader in the area of legal research instruction, teaches Advanced Legal Research and the research and writing seminar Queer Legal Scholarship. He has taught legal research in various contexts including in stand-alone first year and upper level legal research courses. Wheeler believes there should be a legal research component in every facet of the law curriculum including in study abroad programs. To that end, he has taught legal research abroad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Linz, Austria. Wheeler taught a course on U.S. legal research to Chinese law students at the East China University of Political Science and Law in the summer of 2012.
Wheeler’s scholarship focusing on legal research techniques, legal research instruction, and algorithm-driven search engines has gained him national attention, and he is often called upon to speak about teaching innovation and other legal research related topics. He is also a well-known speaker and author on issues related to law library management and the role of the law library in the enterprise of legal education. Wheeler pens a regular feature in Law Library Journal called Diversity Dialogues which aims to engage the scholarly conversation on issues of diversity of librarianship and in the legal profession.
In 2014 Wheeler was named to the Lawyers of Color 50 Under 50 list of minority attorneys making an impact on legal education.
Wheeler is currently running for the office of Vice-President/President-Elect of the American Association of Law Libraries.
October 2014 Featured Member
Trezlen Drake is Research Librarian and the International and Foreign Law Specialist at the Kresge Law Library at Notre Dame Law School. She provides general research assistance to the Notre Dame Law Community, provides research support for law faculty, handles pernicious international and foreign law questions and is currently teaching legal research, writing and analysis in Notre Dame's new General LL.M. program.
Trezlen is the Immediate Past Chair of the Gen X/Gen Y Caucus/SIS (now PEGA-SIS), a Member-a-Large of BCAALL, and a former member of the CONELL Committee. She received her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law and her MLIS with Special Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington. She joined the Kresge Law Research Department in 2012.
September 2014 Featured Member
Michelle Tolley is the Electronic Technical Services Librarian at Paul Hastings LLP. Prior to joining the Firm in 2011, she worked at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. While completing her M.L.I.S at San Jose State University, Michelle worked as volunteer Librarian at the Western Center on Law and Poverty and Library Extern at the Second District Court of Appeals.
August 2014 Featured Member
Tonya Baroudi is the Director of Library Services at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County where she provides legal information and services to the Judges’, attorneys’, state and county employees, and self-representing litigants who reside or practice in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Previously, Tonya Baroudi was the Law Librarian at the law firm of Keller and Heckman LLP in Washington, D.C. Ms. Baroudi is the Immediate Past President of the Law Library Association of Maryland. Ms. Baroudi received her Master of Science in Library Science from the Catholic University of America.
July 2014 Featured Member
Brittany Persson joined the Seton Hall Law Library as a reference and acquisitions librarian in 2010. After receiving her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, Brittany practiced securities and derivatives law. She then obtained her M.L.S. as an IMLS Scholar in St. John’s Special Libraries program in 2011.
June 2014 Featured Member
Yolanda Patrice Jones is Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at the Florida A&M University College of Law. Yolanda provides services to help people find the legal information that they need for their scholarship, their work, and their personal lives, and works to enhance access to justice for those who cannot afford legal representation. She teaches Legal Bibliography and Advanced Legal Research. Yolanda is a past chair of the AALL Committee on Diversity and maintained the Committee on Diversity web pages for several years. Most currently she is a Past President of MichALL.
May 2014 Featured Member
Richelle Reid is the Asst. Law Librarian for Student Services & User Experience at the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, GA. She teaches Advanced Legal Research, conducts workshops on various legal research topics, and coordinates the law library’s stress management program. Richelle is also the chair of the BCAALL Community Service Committee and has served in that role since 2012.
April 2014 Featured Member
Michael Davis is currently Head of Reference Services with the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, GA. In this position he provides significant research assistance to federal judges and their law clerks on wide range of issues national implications.
Michael holds a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from The City University of New York School of Law and an M.L.I.S. from Wayne State University.
March 2014 Featured Member
Chris Bloodworth is a law librarian at the firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in Detroit, Michigan. Chris joined the firm in April 2011 and has been a AALL member for 15 years.
February 2014 Featured Member
Catherine Deane is the Foreign & International Law Librarian at the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt University. Prior to this, she was the Reference Librarian at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She has an M.A. in Anthropology and a J.D. with a Certificate in Comparative & International Law from the University of Tulsa, OK and an M.L.I.S. from San Jose State University. She also blogs for RIPS
January 2014 Featured Member
Lisa Goodman is the Associate Director for Public Services at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center Library at Louisiana State University. She earned her JD and MLIS from Wayne State University in Detroit. Lisa is currently BCAALL’s Secretary and Chair of AALL’s CONELL Committee.
December 2013 Featured Member
Janeen Williams joined North Carolina Central University School of Law Library as a reference librarian in November 2013. She is the electronic resources librarian. Janeen received her JD from Mercer University and her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
November 2013 Featured Member
Donna Nixon is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Electronic Resources Librarian at the UNC-Chapel Hill Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
October 2013 Featured Member
April Hathcock joined Coleman Karesh Law Library at the University of South Carolina School of Law in Columbia as a reference librarian. She teaches in the first-year legal research, analysis, and writing program. She received her J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law, after which she spent three years in private litigation practice before starting her law library career. She obtained her M.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida where she was named a 2013 ALA Spectrum Scholar. Welcome to Law Librarianship!
September 2013 Featured Member
Betty Wright is the Reference/Technical Services Librarian at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP in Atlanta, GA. Prior to working at SGR, Betty worked as a Library Associate at Georgia State University. Betty is also BC's new webmaster!
August 2013 Featured Member
Michelle Cosby is the Senior Reference Librarian at North Carolina Central University. She is the outgoing chair for the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) and the incoming Vice Chair for BCAALL. Look for her program review of the CRIV Vendor Roundtable in Seattle in the next issue of CRIV Sheet with your Spectrum.