Prior to my current position as the assistant dean of students at the UNT Dallas College of Law, I spent from fall 1995 through 2013 directing SMU Dedman School of Law's Public Service and Academic Skills Assistance Programs. I also worked with pipeline programs intended to encourage future law students, such as the law-related education (LRE) program, and helped develop and coordinate an annual minority pre-law symposium.

The Public Service Program helped expose law students to the importance of a commitment to public service. ASAP provided resources to students to assist them to pass the bar, and pipeline programs helped in outreach efforts to a diverse pool of prospective law school applicants. I appreciate the good work and wonderful relationships built over more than eighteen years at Dedman, and look forward to more good years working in legal education at the UNT Dallas College of Law.

One of the UNT Dallas College of Law's core goals is to broaden access to legal education, and its admissions process assesses and considers overall applicant credentials. The school believes that lawyers should be as diverse as the communities they serve, and that diversity includes not only race and ethnicity, but also age, educational and professional experience, as well as the socioeconomic background of applicants. The school's holistic approach to admissions gives the UNT Dallas College of Law a greater ability to admit students who might otherwise be overlooked by law schools that place more emphasis on LSAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages.