DARBY DICKERSON
Vice President and Dean
Professor of Law
B.A., M.A., College of William and Mary
J.D., Vanderbilt Law School

Darby Dickerson is Vice President and Dean at Stetson University College of Law. Dean Dickerson received her B.A. (government and history) and M.A. (government) from the College of William and Mary, and earned her J.D. in 1988 from Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and as a member of the Moot Court Board.

After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Harry W. Wellford of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and then worked as a litigation associate for six years at the Dallas, Texas firm of Locke Purnell Rain Harrell (now Locke Liddell & Sapp). In 1995, she was named both Outstanding Director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Outstanding Young Lawyer in Dallas.

Dean Dickerson joined the Stetson Faculty in Fall 1995. Dean Dickerson served as Associate Dean from 2000-2002, Vice Dean during 2002-2003, and Interim Dean during 2003-2004. She was named Vice President and Dean in February 2004.

She has taught legal research and writing, federal pretrial practice, and litigation ethics. She served as Director of Legal Research and Writing from 1996 to 2004. From Fall 1995 until December 1999, she served as the faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board, and is a co-founder of Stetson's International Environmental Moot Court Competition. She has served as an advisor to the Stetson Law Review from 1996 to 2004. She is a Director of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and is President of the Ferguson-White Inn of Court Executive Board. Dean Dickerson’s research interests include legal citation and litigation ethics. Her articles appear in the Nebraska Law Review, the Stetson Law Review, the Maryland Law Review, the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. In March 2000, her book, ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional Citation System, written on behalf of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, was published by Aspen Publishers, Inc.  The second edition was published in January 2003.   The book is designed as an alternative to the Bluebook.  Professors at more than 100 law schools have adopted the book. The book has also been adopted by more than 75 paralegal programs and several  law journals.

In 1997, Dean Dickerson received Stetson University’s Teaching Excellence Award; in 1998 and again in 2000, she received the University’s Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.

In 2001, Dean Dickerson was appointed to the Law School Administration Committee of the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. She was named Vice Chair in August 2004.

In 2002, Dean Dickerson was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross (term ended May 2004) and to the Vanderbilt Law School Alumni Board. She also serves as an ex officio member of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Board of Governers.

In 2003, she was named Managing Editor of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and was invited to serve on the panel of academic contributors for the eighth edition of Black's Law Dictionary.

In 2004, she was elected as Secretary of the Pinellas County Education Facilities Authority and was selected for Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

darby@law.stetson.edu

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