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Areas of Interest
Criminal law and procedure; judicial education; bail and pretrial release; evidence; post-conviction procedure
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Jessie Smith joined the Institute of Government in 2000. Prior to that, she practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She also clerked for U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and for Senior U.S. Circuit Judge J. Dickson Phillips Jr. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. At the School of Government, Smith teaches and consults with judges and other public employees involved in the criminal justice system. She is the 2006 recipient of the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Term Professorship for Teaching Excellence. Smith earned a BA, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was managing editor of the Law Review.
Areas of Interest
Civil procedure, courts, and administration of estates
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Ann Anderson joined the School of Government faculty in 2007. Prior to that, she was an associate for six years with the law firm of Kennedy Covington in Raleigh and Durham, where she specialized in real-estate litigation and quasi-judicial proceedings. Anderson earned a BA in history with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, where she was a member of the North Carolina Law Review.
Other School of Government faculty who specialize in courts and criminal justice issues — including their areas of interest — are listed below:
| Michael Crowell | Courts and judicial education; constitutional law; voting rights; alcoholic beverage control law |
| Shea Denning | Motor vehicle law, including legal aspects of driving while impaired and driver’s license revocations |
| James Drennan | Judicial ethics; judicial administration; legal responsibilities of clerks of court; pattern jury instructions; North Carolina constitution |
| Cheryl Howell | Courts; family law; judicial education |
| Dona Lewandowski | Magistrates’ issues (non-criminal law) including summary ejectment, small claims procedure, appointment and removal matters |
| Jamie Markham | Criminal sentencing; corrections; community corrections; jails and prisons |
| Janet Mason | Juvenile law; social services law; adoption; marriage law |
| John Rubin | Criminal law and procedure; evidence; indigent defense; domestic violence; subpoenas |
| Jeff Welty | Criminal law and procedure; evidence; prosecutor training; police attorneys |
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