IU McKinney Welcomes Two Visiting Professors
08/01/2016
Two visiting clinical professors will join the top-ranked Legal Communication and Analysis program at IU McKinney for the Fall 2016 semester.
Roxana S. Bell, ’11, returns to the law school as a visiting professor after working as an attorney in the labor and employment practice group at Bingham Greenebaum Doll. A former chemistry and physics teacher at Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Bell comes from a family of educators. “I always knew that I would return to academia,” Bell said. “My most rewarding experiences in teaching have been the ‘Aha!’ moments when a difficult concept finally clicks with a student.”
Bell graduated from the honors college of the University of Florida, where she was a teaching assistant for the writing program. While in law school, she served as a teaching assistant for the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity Summer Institute, was a member of the Dean’s Tutorial Society, and executive articles editor of the "Indiana Health Law Review".
J. Amy Dillard joins IU McKinney as a visiting professor after teaching at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 2006. At Baltimore, she piloted the school’s Introduction to Lawyering Skills class. In that class, law faculty combine a first-year doctrinal course with three credits of traditional legal analysis and writing instruction. She called her inaugural semester of an upper-level course combining Constitutional Criminal Procedure with three credits of advanced legal analysis and rhetoric “a smashing success. I enjoy actively teaching the mechanics of legal analysis while covering doctrinal material.”
Dillard says she’s been teaching since the day she was assigned her first law clerk in the Public Defender’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia. During her decade in that office, she supervised many law students in trial and appellate court. “In many ways, that was an apprentice system, with most aspiring public defenders spending all of the intern/extern hours in our office,” she said. She was recruited from that position to teach as an adjunct in the Legal Rhetoric Program at American University Washington College of Law.
“We are thrilled to have both Professors Bell and Dillard joining our faculty,” stated Professor Allison Martin, LCA coordinator and clinical professor of law. “Our students will benefit greatly from their passion for teaching and experiences.”
