Dean Cynthia Nance, Patron Fellow, was elected as the President of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers Board of Governors. She will serve a one-year term as the Board of Governors President and is the first law professor and woman of color to serve in the role.
The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers (CLEL) is a professional association that recognizes the nation’s leading labor and employment law practitioners and academics. This is the 30th anniversary of the CLEL’s founding, as it began on the 60th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Board and 60th anniversary of Title VII.
Dean Nance’s career has spanned nearly 30 years so far, full of teaching, service and scholarship. She first became the dean of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville Law School in 2006 and was the first person of African American descent to serve in the role in the law school’s at the time 82-year-old history.
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