Lia Beth Epperson was born on 1971 or 1972 and is an American civil rights lawyer and professor of law at American University Washington College of Law.
18 Facts About Lia Epperson
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Lia Epperson previously served as the senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at the law school.
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Lia Epperson's scholarship focuses primarily on federal courts and educational policies with regard to race.
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Lia Epperson was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an Institute of Advanced Studies Fellow at Collegium de Lyon.
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Lia Epperson has authored multiple amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States related to affirmative action and education law.
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Lia Epperson grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, alongside sister Sharon Lia Epperson.
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Lia Epperson's mother was a first-grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Pittsburgh.
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Lia Epperson later attended Stanford University School of Law, receiving a juris doctor in 1998.
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At Stanford, Lia Epperson worked as an editor of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Law and Policy Review.
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Lia Epperson was admitted to the California State Bar on May 5,1999, although her license is no longer active in the state.
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From 2001 to 2005, Lia Epperson served as the director of education litigation and policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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Lia Epperson began her career in academics in 2005, serving as an associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she taught constitutional law until 2010.
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Lia Epperson was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2008 to 2010, conducting research that focused on federal civil rights enforcement of educational policies and practices.
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From 2009 to 2010, Lia Epperson worked as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
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In 2010, Lia Epperson began working at American University Washington College of Law.
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Lia Epperson previously served as director of the Doctor of Juridical Science Program.
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On several occasions, Epperson has been a panelist and correspondent on C-SPAN, discussing the Supreme Court case Ricci v DeStefano as well as public school integration.
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Lia Epperson married Benjamin Jealous, the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in July 2002.