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43 St. & Loc. L. News 1 (2019-2020)

handle is hein.journals/stlolane43 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol.43, No. 1, Fall 2019 STATE& LOCAL LAW The Section serves as a collegialforumfor its members, the profession, and the public to provide leadership and educational resources in urban, state, and local government law and policy. Daiquiri Steele Awarded Tulane Forrester Fellowship Professor Daiquiri Steele, a Sec- tion Council Member, is now a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School, a program designed for those seeking tenure-track law faculty posi- tions. Forrester Fellows teach for one or two years in the first-year legal writing program. Professor Steele serves on the ABA Commis- sion on the Future of Legal Education, the ABA Standing Committee on Public Education, and the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She has served on the ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and as Diversity Direc- tor for the ABA Young Lawyers Division where she also is the Assembly Speaker and Chief Policy Officer. She also is a member of the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law and is Vice-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Commit- tee for the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice. Professor Steele previously served as the Georgia Young Lawyers Division Director of ABA Involvement and is a graduate of the Georgia Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy. In 2016, she received the Award of Achievement for Outstanding Service to the Profession by the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division. She is also a member of the National Bar Association and a previous Co-Chair of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Gov- ernment Attorneys Section. Professor Steele has served as chief diversity officer for the University of Alabama School of Law and taught Employment Discrimination, Education Law, Equal Edu- cational Opportunity, and Legislation & Regulation. She was a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, offering legal counsel in federal investigations of discrimination at the nation's school districts, colleges, universities, and state educational agencies. She served as a mediator for civil rights claims and has worked for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Com- pliance Programs, where she assessed compliance with employment discrimination laws. Professor Steele has bachelor's degrees in Economics and Political Science from Spelman College, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She earned her JD at the University of Georgia School of Law, her master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from North- western University, and her PhD in Business Administration from Hampton University. Professor Steele has spoken at many national, state, and local conferences on federal equal employment opportu- nity laws, diversity in the legal profession, diversity pipeline programs, implicit bias, sexual harassment and sexual vio- lence, the use of statistical analysis in disparate impact cases, cyberbullying, and the responsibilities of postsecondary institutions concerning students with disabilities. - Chair's Message, page 3 - Editor's Message/FCC Updates Cable Franchising Rules, page 6 - Understanding and Dealing with Vacant and Abandoned Properties, page 2 - Community Development Block Grants: Impact and Funding Needs, page 8 - Member News -Leading and Guiding: Women Government Lawyers, page 4 -Law Student Awards, page 7 - Section News -New Edition! The Urban Lawyer, (Spring 2019), page 7 - Land Use Institute and Spring CLE Conference, April 23-26,2020, Tampa, FL, page 10 - Recap of Annual Meeting Panel Presentation Supreme Court Roundup, page 14 - Fall CLE and Networking Conference October 10-13, 2019, St. Paul, MN, page 15 Published in State & Local Law News, Volume 43, Number 1, Fall 2019. © 2019 American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association. /aBk AMERI BNIA95 ATON 1

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