Professor Daiquiri Steele, a Section Council Member, is now a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School, a program designed for those seeking tenure-track law faculty positions. Forrester Fellows teach for one or two years in the first-year legal writing program. Professor Steele serves on the ABA Commission 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 Director 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 Committee for the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
December 23, 2019 Member News
Daiquiri Steele Awarded Tulane Forrester Fellowship
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 Government 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 Educational 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 Compliance 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 Northwestern 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 opportunity laws, diversity in the legal profession, diversity pipeline programs, implicit bias, sexual harassment and sexual violence, the use of statistical analysis in disparate impact cases, cyberbullying, and the responsibilities of postsecondary institutions concerning students with disabilities.