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CASCAID
2007
Conference Events
~May 18, 19~
Conference co-sponsored by
Whatcom Human
Rights Task Force
WWU Civil Controversy
2007 Conference Themes
Peace with the
Self
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Peace in the
Community
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Peace between
Nations
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Peace with the
Planet
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Peace through
Justice
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2007 Keynote Address:
Teri McMurtry-Chubb Friday, May 18, 7pm -- WWU Fraser Hall 4 Sponsored by Western Washington University's Civil Controversy Series and Ethnic Student Center |
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Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is the Coordinator for the Center for Law, Diversity & Justice (CLDJ) at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College. Professor McMurtry-Chubb began her professional career in the summer of 1999, when she became the first African American woman hired as a law clerk for the 5th Judicial District of Iowa. McMurtry-Chubb worked as a clerk for a year, and then joined the law firm of Huber, Book, Cortese, Happe & Brown, P.L.C. in May of 2000. At that time, she was the first person of color ever to be hired at the firm and one of two Black women in the entire state of Iowa in private practice. As an Associate at the law firm, she practiced in the areas of insurance defense, employee benefits, and employment discrimination. During her last year there, she continued to practice law while simultaneously teaching World History and African American History at Des Moines Area Community College in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2000, she was also appointed to the State of Iowa Historical Society Board of Trustees by Governor Thomas Vilsack, where she served until 2003. In the fall of 2002, McMurtry-Chubb left private practice to work as a law professor at Drake University School of Law in Des Moines, Iowa. At the time of her hiring, she was the first African American woman to join the legal writing faculty full-time. While at Drake, she taught Legal Writing and Worker’s Compensation Law, and served as the faculty advisor for the Black Law Student’s Association and the Chair of the Iowa National Bar Association (the founding chapter of this association for African American members of the bar). Professor McMurtry-Chubb left Iowa in the summer of 2003 to join the Fairhaven College faculty. She teaches in the areas of law, legal history, comparative gender studies and hegemony studies. She holds an M.A. in 19th Century Social and Legal History from the University of Iowa, a J.D. (with distinction) from the University of Iowa College of Law, and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in History and International Relations from Spelman College, an historically Black college for women in Atlanta, Ga. |
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