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Alicia Hughes

Associate Dean of Student Affairs

By way of background, Dean Alicia R. Hughes received a B.S. in Biology with dual minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering from Texas Southern University, where she was a Douglass Honors Institute Scholar (full academic scholarship), an international champion debater and team vice president, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Researcher at Baylor College of Medicine (and became the MARC/NIH Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher), and Student Government Association President.
After taking two gap years and working as a middle school science teacher in a suburban Houston school district, Dean Hughes attended and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was in the inaugural class of Miami Scholars, served on the editorial board of the University of Miami School of Law International and Comparative Law Review, was a member of the International Moot Court Board and Jessup National Trial Team, and served as President of the University of Miami School of Law Black Law Students Association (BLSA), becoming Parliamentarian of the National BLSA.
As a parting gift to Miami Law, Dean Hughes worked alongside her law school mentor to found the law school’s first formalized mentoring program. It benefitted Black law students in an effort to diversity the bar 25 years ago and was the imprimatur for what is now the State of Florida’s premier mentoring program across all law schools, more broadly, for all minority students, that garnered one of the American Bar Association’s earlier diversity awards.
In addition to her degrees, Dean Hughes is a University of Virginia Sorensen Institute Fellow in Political Leadership and an Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership, and she has completed doctoral coursework toward an Executive Ed.D. in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania.
Separately, Dean Hughes completed a federal judicial clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, after working in a large Florida law firm immediately upon law school graduation. She is a former congressional staffer, having co-founded the Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force, an imprimatur to ObamaCare, while a law student, and she is a former public official, both a local elected city councilor in the home of the first U.S. President, General George Washington, making history as the 10th woman and 8th Black in more than 250 years, and a governor-appointed commissioner on three statewide bodies.
Dean Hughes formally affiliated with the academy for the first time during the pandemic as a lecturer in business law at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been privileged to teach at Widener University’s Delaware Law School, be visiting faculty at Boston University School of Law and Emory University School of Law, where she primarily taught and advised in the patent law space (her primary trained specialization). Her patent law students at Emory were western regional champions in the USPTO Patent Application Drafting Competition and ranked as a top 5 team in the nation.
In addition to her work as visiting faculty, Dean Hughes served as inaugural executive director of Emory’s Center on Civil Rights and Social Justice.
Dean Hughes is a daughter of the South, born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. As a result of her experiences, she has an enduring appreciation for the legal culture, professionalism, and collegiality that define practice in the region and, as a 5th generation educator, a profound commitment to the well-being of students.
Dean Hughes is a former Chief Policy Advisor of the National Bar Association.

B.S., Texas Southern University, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
J.D., University of Miami School of Law

ahughes@johnmarshall.edu

Emma Wylly

Jeffrey A. Van Detta

Nicholas Smith

Jonathan Rapping

Alison Prout

B. Michael Mears

Lance McMillian

Michael J. McCabe II

Tanya Daniel McAdams

Suparna Malempati

Bruce Luna

Dr. Mitchell Longan

Browning Jeffries

Elizabeth M. Jaffe

Jeanette Holmes

Jennifer Giles

Jace C. Gatewood

Kari Mercer Dalton

Shannon Chamberlain

Vickie S. Carlton

Robert Brown

Dr. Megan E. Boyd

K. Lee Adams

Scot Goins

Joanna Apolinsky

Anthony Cochran

Adjunct Professor

acochran@johnmarshall.edu

Peter Duitsman

Adjunct Professor

pduitsman@johnmarshall.edu

James McGee

Adjunct Professor

jmcgee@johnmarshall.edu

Rebecca Hoelting

Adjunct Professor

rhoelting@johnmarshall.edu

Sam Starks

Adjunct Professor

sstarks@johnmarshall.edu

Nicole Weitnauer

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., University of Georgia 
J.D., Georgia State University College of Law

nweitnauer@johnmarshall.edu

Denienne A. Steele

Adjunct Professor, Attorney at GSH Attorneys

Education: 
B.A., Spelman College 
J.D., Georgia State University College of Law

dsteele@johnmarshall.edu

Aislee Smith

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., Morehouse College 
J.D., Howard University Law School 
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center

asmith@johnmarshall.edu

Honorable Randy Rich

Adjunct Professor, Henning Mediation & Arbitration Services

Education: 
B.A., University of Georgia 
J.D., Georgia State University College of Law

Ryan Pratt

Adjunct Professor, Corporate Counsel, Moody's Analytics

Education: 
B.A., The University of Mississippi 
J.D., The University of Mississippi School of Law

rpratt@johnmarshall.edu

Dr. Bridgett Ortega

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., San Jose State University 
M.A., University of Phoenix 
J.D., Lincoln University Law School 
D.M., University of Phoenix

bortega@johnmarshall.edu

Joseph Mitchell

Adjunct Professor; Assistant General Counsel, SAP

Education: 
B.S.I.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, Phi Beta Kappa 
J.D., John Marshall Law School 
LL.M. in Taxation, University of Alabama

John Mills

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., Wofford College 
J.D., Emory University School of Law

jmills@johnmarshall.edu

Adam Maze

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., Franklin & Marshall College 
J.D., New York University School of Law 
M.A., A.B.D., University of Chicago

amaze@johnmarshall.edu

Michael Lynch

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
Ph.B., University of Detroit 
M.Libr., Emory University 
J.D., University of Michigan

mlynch@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2661

Jonathan Goins

Adjunct Professor, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Attorneys

Education: 
B.A., University of Louisville 
J.D., The Howard University School of Law

jgoins@johnmarshall.edu

Susan Gogley

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.S., Ohio University 
J.D., Cleveland John Marshall University (n/k/a Cleveland State University)

sgogley@johnmarshall.edu

(404) 444-3852

Jeffrey Diamond

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 
J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

jdiamond@johnmarshall.edu

Erin Corken

Adjunct Professor, Esq., CEDS, FIP, AIGP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM

Education: 
B.F.A., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music 
J.D., University of Cincinnati College of Law

ecorken@johnmarshall.edu

Christopher Chan

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 
J.D., Georgia State University College of Law

cchan@johnmarshall.edu

Torris Butterfield

Adjunct Professor

Education: 
B.A., Fort Valley State College 
J.D., Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University

tbutterfield@johnmarshall.edu

Vanessa Condry

Administrative Assistant

Education: 
B.A., Saint Leo University, Criminal Justice

vcondry@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2684

Justina Mason

Director of Student Programs and Support Services

Education: 
B.A., Georgia State University 
M.S., Georgia State University 
Ed.D., Drexel University

jmason1@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2683

Leron Burge

Assistant Director of Student Affairs

Education: 
B.A., Marshall University 
M.A., Argosy University

lburge@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2682

Phyllis Adams

Director of Student Accounts

Education: 
B.S., DeVry University, magna cum laude 
M.B.A., Keller Graduate School of Management, with distinction 
M.H.R.M., Keller Graduate School of Management, with distinction

padams@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2608

Tanya Pinto

Assistant Registrar

Education: 
A.A., Kingsborough Community College 
B.A., Brooklyn College 
M.P.A., Metropolitan College of New York

tpinto@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2616

Cheryl Ferebee

Registrar

Education: 
B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York

cferebee@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2615

Jaela Grim

Marketing Specialist

Education: 
B.S., Kennesaw State University

jgrim@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2626

Hilary Waldo

Director of Marketing and Communications

Education: 
B.S., University of Florida

hwaldo@johnmarshall.edu

Abbas Zeineddin

Circulation Assistant

Education: 
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 
J.D., Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School

azeineddin@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2660

Dr. Mary Wilson

Head of Public Services

Education: 
B.A., Oglethorpe University 
J.D., Woodrow Wilson College of Law 
M.S.L.S., Clark Atlanta University 
D.A.S.L., Emory University 
M.A., Georgia School of Professional Psychology 
M.S., Georgia State University 
Ed.D., University of New England

mewilson@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2663

Susan Risher

Public Services Assistant

srisher@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2660

Lynne Rhys

Technical Services Assistant

Education: 
B.A., University of New Mexico 
M.S.I.S., Florida State University 
J.D., Harvard Law School

lrhys@johnmarshall.edu

678-916-2667

Sue Burkhart

Head of Technical Services

Education: 
B.A., State University of New York 
M.L.S.N., Emory University

sburkhart@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2668

Kiara Burch

Public Services Assistant (Evening)

kmburch@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2660

Mark Durbin

Director of Law Library

Education: 
B.S., Auburn University 
M.S.L.S., Clark Atlanta University

mdurbin@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2662

Hal Morgan

Enterprise Systems Administrator

Education: 
A.A., Reinhardt College 
B.S., Liberty University

hmorgan@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2692

Harold Bieber

Director of Information Technology and Facility Manager

hbieber@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2600

Myra Edwards

Financial Aid Counselor

Education: 
B.S., University of Florida

medwards@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2676

Michelle Cooper

Director of Financial Aid

Education: 
B.S., Grambling State University 
M.B.A., University of Phoenix

mcooper@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2675

Cheyenne Rossis

Faculty Coordinator

Education: 
A.S., Atlanta Metropolitan State College 
B.S., Southern New Hampshire University

crossis@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2629

Sunday Birmingham

Lead Faculty Coordinator

sbirmingham@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2627

Steven Jaudon

Academic Program Coordinator

Education: 
B.A., Clayton State University

sjaudon@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2628

Harold Bieber

Director of Information Technology and Facility Manager

hbieber@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2600

Allyn Haynes

Externship Coordinator

ahaynes@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2688

Mecca Anderson

Director of Externship Programs and Associate Professor of Legal Practice

Education: 
B.A., New College of California 
J.D., Valparaiso University School of Law

manderson@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2679

Sloane Serafin

Assistant Director of Development

Education: 
B.S., Georgia Southern University

sserafin@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2673

A. J. Doucett

Director of Alumni Relations

Education: 
B.A., University of North Florida 
J.D., Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School 
M.L.I.S., Valdosta State University

adoucett@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2665

Wendy Aina

Chief Development Officer

Education: 
B.A., The University of Georgia 
M.Ed., The University of Georgia

waina@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2674

Angela Sumpter

Career Services and Professional Development Coordinator

asumpter@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2677

Corey Martin

Homeless Veteran's Law Clinic Supervising Attorney

cmartin@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2672

Reggie Davenport

Evening Receptionist | Security

rdavenport@johnmarshall.edu

(404) 275-2910

Cynthia Crawford

Director of Human Resources and Office Management

Education: 
B.S., Morris Brown College

ccrawford@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2604

Hermelda Branford

Front Desk Receptionist

Education: 
B.S., University of Baltimore

hbranford@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2600

Daynna Bankston

Controller

dbankston@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2607

Duane Wright

Chief Financial Officer

Education: 
B.A., Morehouse College

dwright@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2609

Grace St. Urbain

Admissions Counselor

Education: 
B.A., University of Georgia, majors in International Affairs and Romance Languages 
J.D., University of Massachusetts School of Law

gsturbain@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2624

Marc Reece

Executive Director of Recruitment and Outreach

Education: 
B.S., Southern Polytechnic State University 
M.B.A., Kennesaw State University

mreece@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2622

Rebecca Milter

Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment

B.A., University of Georgia

rmilter@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2620

Erika Murray

Executive Assistant to the Dean

Education: 
B.B.A, University of West Georgia 
M.B.A., University of Florida

emurray@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2603

Dr. Sheryl Harrison

Senior Associate Dean and Chief of Student Affairs

Dr. Harrison is a former law clerk of the Honorable James A. Beaty, Jr., Middle District of North Carolina, and former Note Editor of the North Carolina Law Review. At the time that Dr. Harrison became a member of the North Carolina Law Review, she was the first African-American in fifteen years and the second African-American female ever to qualify for membership on this prestigious journal. Prior to joining Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, Dr. Harrison practiced complex litigation for three years at Troutman Sanders, focusing on tort, contract and products liability litigation. While on the faculty, she taught Business Organizations; Contracts; Legal Drafting; and Legal Research, Writing & Analysis I & II.

B.S., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, summa cum laude 
M.B.A., Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University 
J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cum laude, Order of the Coif 
Ph.D., University of Georgia

sharrison@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2681

M. Scott Boone

Associate Professor of Law

Education: 
B.S., Texas Christian University 
J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center 
LL.M., Temple University School of Law

sboone@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2638

Judith M. Barger

Vice Dean and Professor of Law

Education: 
B.S., Wright State University, magna cum laude 
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

jbarger@johnmarshall.edu

(678) 916-2653

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