Daiquiri Steele, Esq., Ph.D.
The University of Alabama School of Law https://www.law.ua.edu/directory/People/view/Daiquiri_Steele
About The Lecturer
Daiquiri Steele, J.D., Ph.D., serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Alabama School of Law, where she teaches courses in Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Labor Law, Education Law, Torts, and Legislation & Regulation. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Washington Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Boston University Law Review, and UC Irvine Law Review.
Prior to entering legal academia, Dr. Steele served as a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, where she provided legal counsel relating to federal investigations of discrimination involving the nation’s school districts, colleges, universities, and state educational agencies. She previously worked for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, where she assessed federal contractors’ compliance with employment discrimination laws.
Dr. Steele serves as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Employment Discrimination Section, Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Labor Relations & Employment Law, Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Program Planning Committee, and a Council member of the ABA Section of State Local Government Law.
She previously served as a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Public Education, a Fellow of ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law, and Assembly Speaker/Chief Policy Officer for the ABA YLD, Director of ABA Involvement for the State Bar of Georgia YLD, and a member of the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
She is an American Bar Foundation Fellow, a graduate of the Georgia Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy, a recipient of the Award of Achievement for Outstanding Service to the Profession by the State Bar of Georgia YLD, a National Bar Association Top 40 Under 40 Honoree, and an ABA On The Rise Top 40 Young Lawyers Award recipient.
Practice Area(s)
Civil Rights
Employment Law
Education Law
Education
Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law
Ph.D. in Business Administration from Hampton University
Master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University
Bachelors of Arts degrees in both Economics and Political Science from Spelman College where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society
