Dr. Kirsten K. Davis, Director of the Stetson Law School's Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication, has been appointed the Interim Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Stetson University College of Law.
She received her law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law, where she was a member of the Ohio State Law Journal and chief justice of the Moot Court Governing Board. She clerked for a federal judge in the Northern District of West Virginia. She later practiced in the areas of litigation, employment and taxation. Dr. Davis began her legal teaching career at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
She holds a Ph.D. in Human Communication from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She has served on the board of directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and is a past chair for the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Women in Legal Education. She is currently Vice Chair of the Florida Bar’s Standing Commission on Professionalism and is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute.
Hat tip to Jason Palmer.
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