Shandrea P. Williams
J.D., Loyola University School of Law (New Orleans)
Associate Professor of Law
shandrea.williams@sulc.edu
Shandrea P. Williams received her J.D. in 1994 from Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans, where she accrued several honors and awards including the Shell Oil Scholarship, Trial Practice Book Award, Moot Court membership, and recognition for her skills in Mediation & Arbitration. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Southern University A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she graduated cum laude. She received several honors and awards, including the President's Scholarship, Alumni Scholarship, Lambda Iota Tau English Fraternity recognition, and Outstanding Student Awards.
Professor Williams has held positions at several law schools. She was a law professor at Purdue University Global Concord Law School, assistant to the dean and adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi Law School in Oxford, Mississippi, director of admissions and special programs at the University of Florida College of Law in Gainesville, Florida, assistant professor in the Center for Academic & Bar Readiness at the University of Laverne College of Law in Ontario, California, and associate professor and academic dean at Arizona Summit School of Law in Phoenix, Arizona. She has also held administrative and teaching positions at institutions of higher learning including serving as vice president of student affairs at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida and vice president of institutional advancement at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Finally, Professor Williams also interned with ProServ Sports Agency in Phoenix, Arizona and the Minnesota Vikings Football Club in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Professor Williams’s research interests cover several facets of the law, with a focus on affirmative action and diversity in legal education and women’s rights, but also contracts, criminal law and procedure, and sports and entertainment law. She is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, National Bar Association, and several other states and a more than 30-year member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Professor Williams is passionate about community service. She is an avid volunteer with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and has served as an advisor to the AZ Summit School of Law (formerly Phoenix School of Law) Family Advocacy Pro Bono Project, a collaborative service project of the law school and the Salvation Army – Elim House, and the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Maricopa County. The Project provides services to survivors of domestic violence. She also was a board member of the Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County, an organization that addresses adult literacy issues in Arizona. Other community-based activities with which she was involved included the Arizona Cardinals Community Service Wives/Significant Others Foundation, Phoenix Rescue Mission, Boys & Girls Club, Cardinals Kids Camps, Salvation Army Annual Canned Food Drive, the Phoenix Women’s Sports Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity.
As a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and because of the devastation caused by several natural disasters, Professor Williams was, and continues to be, an avid volunteer with the city’s restoration efforts.