Andrea Dennis

Assistant Professor of Law
College of Law, Room 251
Office: (859) 257-6197
Fax: (859) 323-1061
aldenn4@email.uky.edu

Andrea Dennis, Assistant Professor of Law, joined the College of Law faculty in 2006.  She teaches criminal law, criminal trial process, children and the law, and family law.  Her research interests currently focus on criminal law and justice, and popular culture.  Before turning to academia, Professor Dennis spent three years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland.  Prior to that, she was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.  Professor Dennis also has professional experience civilly prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases in D.C. Superior Court, teaching legal analysis and writing at the University of Maryland School of Law, and developing national policies and programs for at-risk youth enrolled in Job Corps. 

Professor Dennis earned her J.D. in 1997 from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor for the Annual Survey of American Law and published Because I am Black, Because I am Woman:  Remedying the Sexual Harassment Experience of Black Women.  Immediately following graduation from law school, she served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Raymond A. Jackson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  A Maryland native, Professor Dennis completed her B.S. in Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park.