Melissa L. Saunders

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Melissa Rutledge Lamb Saunders is an American legal scholar who served as a Professor at University of North Carolina Law School, where she taught civil procedure, civil rights and constitutional law from 1993 to 2012. Her research interests include mental health law and regulation. Since 2015, she has practiced as a clinical social worker at the University of North Carolina psychological counseling service. [1]

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Biography

Saunders was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and educated at Yale University and University of Virginia Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and received a J.D. with Order of the Coif in 1987. [2] [3] [4] She later obtained a M.S.W. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After law school, Saunders was law clerk for Judge James Dickson Phillips Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court in 1988 to 1989. [5] Following her clerkships, she practiced civil litigation and became a partner at Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson P.A. in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In 1994 she joined the law faculty as an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1998 she was named a full Professor. In 1997, she was the recipient of the McCall Award for teaching. [6] In 1998 to 1999, she served as Senior Counsel to the North Carolina Attorney General and helped prepare the brief in Hunt v. Cromartie , 526 U.S. 541 (1999). [7] [8]

Personal life

In 1987, she married Robert W. Saunders, a tax attorney who was her law school classmate, and they reside in Durham, North Carolina.

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  2. ↑ "Editorial Masthead". University of Virginia Law Review. 73 (4). May 1987. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Donors-Class of 1987" (PDF). University of Virginia School of Law. 2005. p. 55. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Donors List-Class of 1987" (PDF). University of Virginia School of Law. 2012. p. 51. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Lewis, Libby (June 1, 1993). "Chief Justice Picks Greensboro Clerk, Duke Graduate Joining Legal Elite". Greensboro News & Record. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence". University of North Carolina School of Law. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Saunders, Melissa L. (2000). "PANEL 2: Enfranchising the Disenfranchised". J. L. & Pol'y. 9 (2). Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Hunt v. Cromartie, 526 U.S. 541". Justia.com. 1999. Retrieved December 5, 2018.

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