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FACULTY
The Charles Hamilton Houston Law School Preparatory Institute's professors
and practicing attorneys are the program's asset. Those who currently
teach at Georgetown Law Center are Senior Assistant Dean Everett Bellamy (Legal Reasoning and
Writing), Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (Criminal Law and
Procedure), Attorney Kim Keenan (Civil Procedure), and Attorney Donald Temple,
the founder and Executive Director of the Institute (Introduction to Law).
Faculty members are available to counsel students on academic and career
matters. Former CHH students and current law students serve as tutors for
the program.
Dean Everett Bellamy
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bellamy@law.georgetown.edu
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Everett Bellamy is the Senior Assistant Dean for
the JD Program and Adjunct Professor of Law at
Georgetown University Law Center. Dean Bellamy has
been at Georgetown since 1980.
He
is a member of the American Bar Association,
Business Law Section and the BusinessWeek Alliance
Market Advisory Board. For twelve years, he was
co-chair of the National Bar Association Law
Professors Division. Since 1990, he has been
teaching a small business law course at Georgetown.
In 1998, he taught a course in international
business regulation at the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy. He has advised small
business owners and entrepreneurs for over twenty
years.
Dean
Bellamy has been a guest lecturer at Howard
University Small Business Development Center, Babson
College (MA) School of Entrepreneurship and the
University of Maryland’s Hinman CEOs Program in
Entrepreneurship Education.
During this time, he has advised hundreds of
students of color about law school, the admission
process and careers in the law.
Many
of the students who seek Dean Bellamy's advise have
applied to (or are applying to) law schools across
the country not just Georgetown. It should be noted
that Georgetown graduates more Black law students
than any other law school in the country except
Howard.
For
twenty-nine years, Dean Bellamy has been the
Assistant Executive Director and an instructor in
the Charles Hamilton Houston Preparatory Law
Institute (CHH). CHH is a non-profit, pre-law
summer program that prepares students of color for
the rigors of law school. This summer, CHH will be
celebrating its 30th Anniversary.
In
addition, Dean Bellamy was an instructor in the
Council on Legal Education Opportunity Program (CLEO
). He taught in summer institutes held at
Georgetown, the University of Richmond and the
University of South Carolina Law Schools in the
1980s and 1990s. From 1988 to 1990, he was a guest
lecturer for the University of Maryland Thurgood
Marshall Pre-Law Society.
A
chapter written by Dean Bellamy offering advice to
minority student applicants was published in the
"Kaplan/Newsweek Law School Admissions Advisor"
(Simon & Schuster 1999). Other writings include:
"Academic Enhancement and Counseling Programs:
Counseling Minority Law Students", St. Louis
University Public Law Review (1991) and "The Status
of American American Law Professors", NBA Magazine
(1992).
He
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the
University of Wisconsin, and is a graduate of the
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State
University. He attended the Northwestern University
School of Law, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and
Economic Growth Program.
Professional Associations & Awards
·Who’s
Who Among African Americans
·Who’s Who in American
Law
·American Bar
Association, Business Law Section
·American College
Personnel Association
·American Personnel and
Guidance Association
·Atlantic Resource
Corporation, Board of Directors
·International United
Black Fund, Inc., Board of Directors
·Minority Business
Enterprise Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Case Selection
Committee
·National Bar
Association, Board of Governors
·National Bar
Association, Law Professors Division, Co-Chairman
·National Conference of
Black Lawyers, D.C. Chapter, President
·Phi Alpha Delta Law
Fraternity International
·Outstanding Young Men
of America, 1981
·Outstanding Faculty
Award, Black Law Student Association, Georgetown
University Law Center, 1988
·National Bar
Association, Law Professors Division Award, 1996
·Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Celebration of Life Award, 1998
·Georgetown University
Law Center, Equal Justice Foundation Faculty Award,
1998
·Georgetown University
Law Center, David J. McCarthy, Jr. Award for
Excellence in Administration and Service, 2004
Community Activities
·District
of Columbia Courts Task Force on Racial and Ethnic
Bias
·District of Columbia
Public Schools, Adult Community Education Advisory
Council
·Montgomery County,
Maryland, Code Revision Citizens Group
·Montgomery County
Taxicab Service Advisory Committee, Chairperson
·Washington Legal Clinic
for the Homeless
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Kim Michele Keenan, Esq.
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kkeenan@olender.com
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Kim Keenan is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign
Service and the University of Virginia School of Law and a former member
of the University of Virginia Law Alumni Council. After law
school, she served as the law clerk to the Honorable John Garrett Penn
in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
She is currently the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, D.C.
where her practice has focused on complex medical malpractice
litigation, litigation consulting, and public speaking. Prior to
that she served in the litigation practices of two nationally recognized
law firms for more than eighteen years. She was recently honored
as a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer and one of the Top 50 Women
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Magazine and a Top
Lawyer by Washingtonian Magazine. In May 2007, the Women's Bar
Association named her "Woman Lawyer of the Year" for her contributions
to the profession. Ms. Keenan served as the sixty-second President
of the National Bar Association (NBA), the oldest and largest bar
association of lawyers of color in the world with a network of more than
50,000 lawyers, judges, and law students.
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Honorable Jennifer M. Long
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longjen@hotmail.com
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Judge Jennifer Margaret Long is a Principal Administrative Law Judge
in the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings. In
this capacity, she oversees the Rental Housing Jurisdiction of the
Office of Administrative Hearings. Before joining OAH, Judge Long
served three consecutive terms as a member of the District of Columbia
Rental Housing Commission. She has also served as an Assistant
Public Defender, Arbitrator, and private practitioner with a
concentration in criminal and civil litigation.
Judge Long is admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and the state of Georgia. She is also a member of
the National Association of Administrative Law Judges (NAALJ), the
Maryland and District of Columbia Association of Administrative
Adjudicators, the National Bar Association, and the Judicial Council of
the Washington Bar Association, where she serves as the Financial
Secretary. Judge Long also serves as a mentor, tutor and member of
the board of the Friends of Tyler School. Judge Long received a
Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Howard University, and
she earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Barbara Monroe
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monroebr@law.georgetown.edu
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Barbara Monroe is the Collection Development Librarian at Georgetown Law
Library. She received her B.A. in English from Fisk University,
her J.D. from Washington and Lee University, and her M.S. in Library
Science from Catholic University. This is the fourth year Ms. Monroe
has taught Legal Research for CHH. During the academic year, she
instructs Georgetown students on legal and non-legal research and works
to shape the electronic and print collections of the library. Ms.
Monroe specializes in legislative history, alternative dispute
resolution, District of Columbia legal resources and research in the
social sciences, and has authored research guides on Civil Rights and
Brown v. Board of Education, among others.
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Charles Ogletree
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ovitsky@law.harvard.edu
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Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law,
and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute
for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international
reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to
secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally
under the law. The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
(http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org), named in honor of the visionary
lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education,
opened in September 2005, and focuses on a variety of issues relating to
race and justice, and will sponsor research, hold conferences, and provide policy analysis.
Professor Ogletree’s most recent book, co-edited with Professor Austin Sarat
of Amherst college is From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America,
was published by New York University Press in May 2006. His historical memoir,
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
(http://www.alldeliberatespeed.com), was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2004.
Professor Ogletree is a native of Merced, California, where he attended public schools.
Professor Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) in Political Science from
Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School,
where he served as Special Projects Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review.
Professor Ogletree has been married to his fellow Stanford graduate, Pamela Barnes,
since 1975. They are the proud parents of two children, Charles Ogletree III and Rashida Ogletree.
The Ogletrees live in Cambridge and are members of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Professor David C. Simmons
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david.simmons@dc.gov
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B.A., Howard University; J.D., cum laude, Georgetown.
Professor Simmons has been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown
since 1991 teaching courses in Civil Discovery and Employment
Discrimination. Professor Simmons is the Chief Administrative Law
Judge for the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights.
Before becoming a judge, Professor Simmons practiced law in both large
and small law firms, and worked in various other meaningful positions.
For ten years, he was the principal in a small law firm that focused on
employment discrimination and civil trial work.
He was a litigation associate with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and
served a term as the Athletic Director of Howard University. Professor
Simmons worked as an associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and
was Chief of the Program Coordination Branch of the United Planning
Organization. He was a Special Assistant to the Executive Director
of Friendship House Association, Inc., Deputy Special Assistant to
Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy and Legislative Assistant to Congressman
John Conyers. Professor Simmons clerked for The Honorable Damon J.
Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Donald M. Temple, Esq.
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dtemplelaw@gmail.com
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Donald M. Temple received his B.A. from Howard University in 1975,
his J.D. from the University of Santa Clara School of Law in California
in 1978 and his LL.M. in constitutional and international law from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1981.
Temple's law practice consists of civil and commercial litigation,
with an emphasis on police misconduct, race discrimination and business
disputes. He has litigated successfully against numerous police
departments, governments and corporations, including, but not
limited to, the District of Columbia, Philadelphia and Prince George's
County governments; ICMA-RC Pension Fund; Breen Capital Investment
Corporation; Amtrak; American Eagle; Hyatt Regency; Southern Management;
Potomac Electric Power Company; Bank of America and Chevy Chase Bank.
Temple received national acclaim in a 1997 lawsuit against Eddie
Bauer on behalf of two local teenagers, where he coined the term
"consumer racism" and secured an unprecedented million-dollar verdict in
federal court.
Temple worked in the United States House of Representatives
for the Committee in the District of Columbia between 1980 and 1990 a
Senior Counsel, under the Chairmanship of former Congressman Ronald V. Dellums and on its subcommittee on Judiciary and Education under the
Chairmanship of former Congressmen Mervyn Dymally and Romano Mazzoli.
Temple received the Ollie May Cooper Award in 2007 for his outstanding
service and leadership to the Washington Bar Association, the Black Law
Students Association's Cora T. Walker Award and the prestigious National
Bar Association's Gertrude E. Rush Award.
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Tanya Washington, Esq.
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tbrioche@hotmail.com
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Tanya Washington is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of
Law. After graduation, she clerked for Chief Judge Robert M. Bell
on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Thereafter, she practiced toxic
tort defense litigation in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. offices of Piper, Marbury,
Rudnick & Wolfe. Upon leaving Piper, she served at Harvard Law
School as both the Albert M.
Sacks and A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Research
Fellows before completing her LL.M. Ms Washington taught Civil
Procedure, Contracts and Legal Research and Writing as a Visiting
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, before
joining the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law, where
she teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and Race and Law. She
continues to teach as an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School
of Law and UDC School of Law. Her scholarship and research
interests include issues arising at the intersection of domestic
relations and race and issues arising at the intersection of race and
education. In addition to her law school teaching experience and
scholarship, Ms. Washington has taught Torts for the past ten years as
an Instructor in the Charles Hamilton Houston Preparatory Institute,
which provides prospective law students with the skills and conceptual
understanding of the law to ensure that they excel upon admission to law
school.
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