Federal Civil and Criminal Litigation, Implicit Bias, Federal Sentencing, Trial Advocacy, and Justice Reforms and Innovation
Education
JD, Drake Law School
BA, Gustavus Adolphus College
Selected Publications
Looking Criminal and the Presumption of Dangerousness: Afrocentric Facial Features, Skin Tone, and Criminal Justice,51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 745 (2018) (co-author).
Judging Implicit Bias: A National Empirical Study of Judicial Stereotypes Beyond Black and White, 69 Fla. L. Rev. 63 (2017) (co-author).
Reinvigorating and Enhancing Jury Trials Through an Overdue Juror Bill of Rights: A Federal Trial Judge’s View, 48 Ariz. St. L. J. 481 (2016).
Unspringing the Witness Memory and Demeanor Trap: What Every Judge and Juror Needs to Know About Cognitive Psychology and Witness Credibility, 66 Am. U. L. Rev. 1331 (2015).
The Eight Traits of Great Trial Lawyers: A Federal Judge's View on How to Shed the Moniker: "I am a Litigator,"33 Rev. Litig. 1 (2014).
Courses Taught
Presided over 300 jury trials in six federal courts spanning the Middle District of Florida to the District of the Northern Mariana Islands
Sat by special designation over a dozen times on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeared in "The House I Live In," the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize award-winning documentary on the war on drugs
Presented at more than 500 CLE programs in 38 states and several foreign countries, and trained more than 2,500 state and federal judges on implicit bias across the country.
Argued in the U.S. Supreme Court less than four years out of law school
Recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa's Louise Noun Award (2019)
