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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 Former 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.
Former Dean Everett Bellamy
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Everett Bellamy is the former Senior Assistant Dean for the J.D. Program
and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
He teaches Small Business Law and Entrepreneurship at the Law Center.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section,
and the Business Week Alliance Market Advisory Board. Currently,
he is a member of the American Bar Association of Business Law and, for
ten years, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the
National Bar Association. In 2004, he received the NBA's
Presidential Award. 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. His recent writings include: "The Status of
African American Law Professors" and "Academic Enhancement and
Counseling Programs: Counseling Minority Law Student." He has been
a guest lecturer at Howard University's Small Business Development
Center, Babson College School of Entrepreneurship and the University of
Maryland's Hinman CEO's Program in Entrepreneurship Education. Mr.
Bellamy received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of
Wisconsin and J.D. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland
Marshall School of Law.
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Aisha Bond
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Having attended an international high school in the United Kingdom with students representing over 40 nations, Aisha Bond became innately aware of the many ethnic conflicts, religious disputes and political concerns that define our global citizenship including the use of prisons in various countries. There after, she sought understanding of many global conflicts, their resolution and rule of law concepts by majoring in Political Science with a focus on civil unrest in Southern African countries at Spelman College and continued to concentrate on International Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution at Georgetow University Law Center graduating in 2002.
Upon graduating from Georgetown University Law Center, she began a two year clerkship in the D.C. Superior Court under the tutelage of Judge Kaye K. Christian when she served as the Presiding Judge in the Probate and Tax Division. In 2006, she started a solo practice in Estate Planning and Small Business Development and served “of counsel” in a colleague’s solo Family practice. Responding to a need for young people to become empowered by civic understanding and civic responsibility, Bond subsequently co-founded Lotus Institute of Law, a non-profit organization which utilized education, community programs and court services to restore public faith in the court system and governance for which she developed several versions of an elementary and adolescent curriculum encouraging use of the justice system as a means of conflict resolution.
Aisha Bond has also served as Legal Adviser to PerWil Managment, an international development company, which amung other things has worked on USAID funded initiatives assesing potential development of texile manufacturing plants and industry in West Africa.
Aisha Bond currently maintain a solo practice and teaches Legal Research and Writing at Georgetown Law’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute and both Legal Reasearch adn writing and Moot Court at UDC’s David A. Clark School of Law.
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Kim Michele Keenan, Esq.
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kkeenan@olender.com
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Kim Keenan, is a native of Buffalo, New York. She 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 General Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (“NAACP”). Prior to joining the NAACP, she was the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, D.C. where her practice has focused on complex medical malpractice litigation, mediation and arbitration, 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 is recognized as 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. In 2010, the American Bar Association named her a “Rebel In The Law” for her service to the profession. She is currently the Immediate Past President of the District of Columbia Bar, the second largest jurisdictional bar in the country. Although she was the 38th President of the organization, her service marked the 8th time that a woman has served as president.
In 2006, Ms. Keenan was recognized by Girls Inc. for her work in law, policy, and as a mentor to women. She is a member of the Leadership Metropolitan Washington Class of 2000 and was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2001 in recognition of her distinguished professional service. She is a nationally recognized lecturer on various legal topics and has spoken to numerous organizations including the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Maryland State Bar Conference of Bar Presidents.
Ms. Keenan was a regularly featured “attorney” on the first season of Fox’s “Power of Attorney” television show. She has been a commentator for Fox News and has appeared on Fox’s legal program “Dayside.” In July 2003, she served as a Guest Host on CNN’s Sunday Morning Legal Show “Attorney-At-Law.” She has also appeared on C-SPAN, Court TV, Fox News and numerous radio programs.
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Honorable Jennifer M. Long
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longjen@hotmail.com
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Jennifer M. Long is a Principal Administrative Law Judge in the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings. Prior to her appointment as an ALJ, Judge Long served three consecutive terms as a Commissioner of the District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission. She has also served as an Assistant Public Defender, Arbitrator, and operated two law practices with concentrations 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 a member of the National Association of Women Judges, the National Bar Association, and the Judicial Council of the Washington Bar Association, where she served as the Financial Secretary for several years. Judge Long is the Chair of the Judicial Council’s School Outreach Committee, a mentor in Everybody Wins! DC, a tutor with Jan’s Tutoring House, and a former board member for 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 fifth 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 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 and Family Law. In addition to her full-time tenured position at Georgia State College of Law, she continues to teach Bar exam writing skills as an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law and the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. She recently joined the faculty of Kaplan/PMBR providing bar instruction in Family Law and Civil Procedure. She has been a CHH faculty member, teaching Torts, since 1998.
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