Wendy Parker is nationally recognized for her innovative scholarship in the area of civil rights, focusing on school desegregation and remedies for racial and ethnic discrimination. Before teaching, she litigated school desegregation cases as a Skadden Arps Fellow and staff attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Before practicing law, Wendy served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Jerre Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Wendy joined the Wake Forest faculty in 2003 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she twice won the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006, she received the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award from Wake Forest University School of Law. She and her husband have two children, Austin (8) and Zoe (6).
