Victoria Duke-Dawson

Associate Service Professor in Law 

Biography

Prior to joining St. Mary’s University, Duke-Dawson’s academia path started in Houston, Texas as a staff attorney for the Legal Clinics at Thurgood Marshall School of Law. After several years of showing students how to practice law with real clients, it was then time to make the transition to show students how to embrace legal writing. These skills were subsequently imported from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, at Florida A&M University College of Law. There Duke-Dawson served as the Director of Legal Writing and afterward an Associate Professor of Law in Torts, Elder Law, Juvenile Law, Advanced Torts, Professional Responsibility and a Law School indoctrination Program. Her accomplishments gained her an invitation to become an inaugural professor at the newly established law school, Indiana Tech, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After two years in the Midwest, she returned back to the South. First, she went to Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law where she taught legal writing, bar prep classes and served in the academic support classes, teaching skills labs. To complete the cycle Duke-Dawson transferred her talents and experience and returned back to Texas to teach at St. Mary’s School of Law. Here she supports students in skills-related courses, labs and workshops.

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