Professor Gay Gellhorn

B.A., Radcliffe College, 1960; M.A. Harvard University, 1961; J.D., Seattle University School of Law, 1982.

Before attending law school Professor Gellhorn taught elementary school children, high school completion to soldiers stationed in Italy, and bilingual kindergarten in Montreal.

After law school Professor Gellhorn served as law clerk in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States. She then worked as an associate at the D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she specialized in litigation and financial regulatory matters, and represented as a pro bono attorney all minimum security women inmates in federal prisons in an equal protection and Title IX lawsuit.

Professor Gellhorn's scholarship includes interdisciplinary work on client interviewing, disability and welfare reform, public interest attorney's fees, and equal protection. She directed the HIV/AIDS Law Clinic for several years and teaches contracts. She is a member of the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review.

Contact
Telephone: (202) 274-7344
E-mail: ggellhorn@udc.edu