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Kimberly A. Thomas




Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan


Kimberly A. Thomas joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School in 2003 as a clinical assistant professor teaching in the general civil/criminal clinic. She earned her BS, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland and her JD, also magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was editor in chief of the "Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review." Ms. Thomas clerked for Judge R. Guy Cole at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and served as a major trials attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia prior to joining the faculty. During law school she worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and spent time with Legal Aid of Cambodia and the Justice Committee of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to practicing law, she has worked as a newspaper reporter, a high school math teacher, and taught an undergraduate seminar in the economics department while she was at Harvard.

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