Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She joined the Iowa Law faculty in 2006 after three years on the tenure track at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She graduated from Grinnell College, where she majored in American Studies and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, a Note Editor on the Michigan Law Review, and an Associate Editor of the founding issue of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Solomon Oliver, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also worked as a labor and employment associate at both Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, and Foley Hoag in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Onwuachi-Willig researches and writes in Employment Discrimination, Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and Race and the Law.