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Angela Onwuachi-Willig is Professor of Law and the Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar at the University of Iowa. She graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where she majored in American Studies and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, a Note Editor on the Michigan Law Review, and an Associate Editor of the founding issue of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. After law school, Professor Onwuachi-Willig clerked for the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also practiced law as a litigation and employment attorney at Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, and as an employment attorney with Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, Massachusetts.
Professor Onwuachi-Willig joined the University of Iowa College of Law faculty in 2006 after three years on the tenure track at the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall). Her research and teaching interests include family law, employment discrimination, critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and evidence. Her recent publications have appeared in the Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Harvard Civil Liberties Civil Rights Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice. In 2006, Professor Onwuachi-Willig was honored for her service by the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools with the Derrick A. Bell Award, which is given to a junior faculty member who has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice. Professor Onwuachi-Willig is the Chair of the AALS Minority Section, Chair-Elect of the AALS Law and Humanities Section, and a member of the Society of American Law Teachers (“SALT”) Board of Governors.
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