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NANCY A. OLIVER

University of Cincinnati College of Law

P.O. Box 210040

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0040

(513) 556-1030

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Practice 2015 – 2016

Coordinated planning for the academic program including orientation, scheduling,

academic advising, exams, and hooding. Supervised Assistant Registrar and

Assistant Director of Academic Affairs. Taught Legal Research and Writing for

LL.M. Students.

Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Practice 2008-2015

Coordinated planning for the academic program including orientation, scheduling,

academic advising, exams, and hooding. Supervised Assistant Registrar,

Associate Professor of Research and Writing and less senior titles 2003 - 2008

Courses taught: Lawyering I – Legal Research and Writing;

Lawyering II – Advocacy. Coordinated the Academic Success Program.

Southern Methodist University College of Law, Dallas, Texas 1994 - 1998

Law School Instructor (part-time)

Taught two classes each year to first-year law students with an emphasis on

effective legal writing, legal analysis, and the interpersonal lawyering skills of

interviewing, counseling, and negotiating.

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Staff Attorney

Judge David A. Nelson, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, Ohio 1990 - 1991

Law Clerk

Touche Ross & Co. CPAs, Cincinnati, Ohio 1984 – 1987

Audit Senior

SELECTED RECENT SERVICE

Academic, Community, and Professional Service: University of Cincinnati Faculty

Senate, including serving in the Cabinet; Faculty Senate Budget and Priorities Committee;

Executive Committee of the Balance in Legal Education Section of Association of American

Law Schools and co-chair of the Nominations Committee; Volunteer for the Mason Food Pantry.

Publications and Speaking Engagements:

Co-author of Bradley & Oliver, The Complete Professional: How Our New Professional

Ideals for Law Students Help Us in the Legal Research and Writing Classroom, 26 Perspectives:

Teaching Legal Research and Writing 14 (2018).

Presentation at the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools on

August 10, 2018, by three members of the Health and Wellness Committee, Professors Smith,

Bryant, and Oliver, along with a colleague from Georgetown Law Center, about our mind-body

work with law students.

Presentation at the Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference September of 2017

called “Using Music to Teach Citations.”

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University of Cincinnati College of Law J.D. conferred 1990. Order of the Coif.

Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights.

Articles Editor, Human Rights Quarterly. Staff Member, Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review.

William Worthington Prize for Best Case Note: Note, Fiduciary Obligations to Holders

of Convertible Debentures: Simons v. Cogan, 549 A.2d 300 (Del. 1988), 58 U. Cin. L.

Rev. 751 (1989).

Co-winner: Paxton and Seasongood Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy and

Judge William H. Leuders Prize for the Highest Grade in Wills and Trusts.

Various American Jurisprudence Prizes for highest grade in class sections.