Kimberly Underdown

Director of Student Engagement

Biography

Kimberly Underdown serves as the Director of Student Engagement in the Office of Career Strategy. She counsels law students and graduates and handles all ABA employment data collection for OCS. Underdown manages student participation in regional job fairs and maintains CORE, the web-enabled recruiting site for law students and legal professionals. She currently serves on the Sunbelt Recruitment Program Board (formerly Sunbelt Diversity Recruitment Program), is actively involved in the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), and currently serves as a member of the NALP/ABA Employment Outcome Advisory Group.

Underdown joined the Office of Career Strategy in January 2014. In her time at St. Mary’s, she has served as Office Coordinator, Recruitment and Programming Coordinator, and Assistant Director, Employment and Recruitment. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Communication and Psychology from the University of Houston-Victoria in 2011 and is currently pursuing a Master of Art in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at St. Mary’s University. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing board games, and spending time with her family.

Presentations

• Negotiations Nuggets, NALP Annual Education Conference, Co-Presenter, April 2024.
• Salary Negotiations, St. Mary’s University School of Law, Co-Presenter, October 2023.
• Collecting, Maintaining, and Reporting Graduate Employment Data Using 12Twenty, NALP Annual Education Conference, Co-Presenter, April 2023.
• Expanding Reaching by Working with Student Ambassadors. NALP Annual Education Conference, April 2023.