Tanya M. Washington earned her B.A. in English from James Madison University and is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. After graduation, she clerked for Chief Judge Robert M. Bell on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Thereafter, she practiced toxic tort defense litigation in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. offices of Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe. Upon leaving Piper, she served as both the Albert M. Sacks and A. Leon Higginbotham Research Fellows at Harvard Law School, before completing her LL.M. Professor Washington then joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor where she taught Civil Procedure and Contracts. Presently, she is a tenured Associate Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and Race Law. Her numerous publications, which cover issues arising in the areas of education, race, and children’s rights, have appeared in journals at law schools across the United States.

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