Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law Award

This award, selected by the Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law, honors activities furthering diversity and equal opportunity goals of the Committee.

2013 Recipient

PROFESSOR MARY DOLORES GUERRA joined the Phoenix School of Law Faculty in 2006. She teaches Commercial Law, ADR, Business Associations, Interviewing and Counseling, and her newest class, Latinas, Latinos and the Law.

She has been instrumental in bringing to Phoenix School of Law two conferences: the Lawyers as Peacemakers and Healers Conference, which she chaired in 2012 and 2013, and the Southeast and Southwest People of Color Conference, which she chaired in 2009.

A UCLA School of Law graduate, Professor Guerra practiced law at Ekmark and Ekmark and as a civil litigator at Bowman and Brooke. Professor Guerra clerked for Hon. Jefferson L. Lankford at the Arizona Court of Appeals. She also clerked for Hon. Michael D. Ryan at the Arizona Court of Appeals, and during that year he was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court.

Professor Guerra has served on legal and community organizations including the ABA Council for Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline, the Arizona State Bar Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law, the Arizona State Bar Committee on Legal Services, the State Bar Task Force on Diversity in the Legal Profession, Mujer, the Arizona State High School Renewal Initiative, and Chicanos Por La Causa. 

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