Joined the faculty in 2004
Education
J.D., Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX, 1985
B.A., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1982
Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Juvenile Law
Criminal Procedure
Trial Simulation
Biographical Information
- Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2016-Present)
- Associate Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2008-2016)
- Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2004-2008)
- Associate Judge for the City of Houston (2000-2010)
- Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas (1986-1987)
- Instructor of law 1991 - 2004
- Director of Legal Education Advancement Program (LEAP) - current
Works in Progress
The Good The Bad and Ugly of Hospice Care: What Everyone Should Know Before You Let the Angels of Death Near Your Loved One
License to Kill: Open Season on African American Men
Publications
Racial Profiling-Separate and Unequal Keeping the Minorities in Line-The Role of Law Enforcement in America, 23 St. Thomas L. Rev. 576 (2011).
From State of California v. Scott Peterson to State of Utah v. Mark Hacking Will More States Adopt Fetal Protection Law American University Washington College of Law-2009
His, Hers or Ours? - Who Has The Right to Determine the Disposition of Frozen Embryos After Separation or Divorce?, 16 BUFF. WOMEN'S L.J. 39 (2008).
The Extreme Consequence of Parental Alienation Syndrome - The Richard Lohstroh Case of a Child Driven to Kill His Father - Will Courts Move Toward Allowing Children to Use Parental Alienation Syndrome as a Defense to the Crime of Murder of Their Own Parent, 27 WOMEN'S RTS. L. REP. 153 (2006).
Application of the Insanity Defense to Postpartum Disorder-Driven Infanticide in the
United States: A Look toward the Enactment of an Infanticide Act. University of Maryland Law Journal of Race,
Religion, Gender and Class/Spring-2006
Taking Flight: A Tribute to the Class of Texas Southern University 2005- Thurgood Marshall Law Review Fall-2005
Affiliations
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- American Bar Association
- Black Women's Lawyers' Association
- National Bar Associates
- Phi Alpha Delta
Service
- General Counsel, TSU Faculty Senate
- Chairperson, Student Faculty Relations Committee, 2007-2009
- Member, Faculty Appointments Committee, 2007
- Member, Academic Standards Committee, 2005-2007
- Faculty Advisor, Black Law Students Association, 2000-2009
- Associate Judge, City of Houston, 2000-2009
- Orientation Instructor, 2000-2008
- Assisted Troop 296, Boy Scouts of America in Fund Raising
- Supervised Law Students with Independent Research Project, Summer & Spring 2005-2009
- Professor of the Year, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2005, 2015
- Recipient of the 2005 Trail Blazer Award, Muskegon, MI
- Volunteer, Fallbrook Church