Latisha Nixon-Jones

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  Professor
• Phone: (225) 771-4900 ext 230
• Fax: (225) 771-5913
• lnixonjone@sulc.edu

Professor Nixon-Jones is a Tulane University graduate with a degree in finance and management. Prior to law school, she served as a claims manager for several national insurance companies. During law school, she served as the managing editor of the Southern University Law Review and worked as a teaching assistant for property and contract classes. She also served as a Thurgood Marshall fellow and traveled to advocate for funding for HBCUs. After law school, she served as an executive management officer for the Louisiana Workforce Committee where she helped to promulgate over thirty administrative laws. She then was selected to serve as a Louisiana State Bar Association LIFT fellow. Through LIFT, she created a law firm that leverage high grossing areas such as personal injury to facilitate lower grossing areas of law such as estate planning to allow for greater access to justice.

In 2016, following the devastation from the South Louisiana floods, Professor Nixon-Jones, a native of Baton Rouge, was selected as an Equal Justice Works Fellow to design and create a disaster law clinic to address the devastating flooding which impacted over 80% of Louisiana parishes. The clinic was successful in helping well over two hundred residents. Professor Nixon-Jones currently consults with other non-profit organizations and law schools in creating clinics after a disaster strikes.

Currently, Professor Nixon-Jones is a hybrid clinical law and legal writing professor at Southern University Law Center. Her research centers on disaster law and long term recovery issues including economic recovery for distressed areas. Professor Nixon-Jones is also known for working with women especially mothers on entrepreneurial endeavors. An advocate for legal writing, Professor Nixon-Jones serves on the Legal Writing Institute’s Diversity Board.

You can find her on Facebook with #mommylawyer or Instagram as themommylawyerbr.. Professor Nixon-Jones has a goal to one day teach entrepreneurial law abroad to low income women.