The Iowa N.E.W. Leadership Program and the Women's Resource & Action Center at the University of Iowa is honored to announce our 2012 Faculty-In-Residence. We look forward to hearing more about the diverse experience and expert knowledge that this incredible group of women will bring to the Iowa N.E.W. Leadership Program!
Marcella David, Associate Dean
Professor David is the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs for the College of Law. She returned to the law school faculty in January 2010 after serving over five years in central administration, most recently as the university’s first Special Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity and Diversity and Associate Provost for Diversity (from 2006-2009).
Professor David joined the law faculty in 1995. From 1991-92, she studied Human Rights and Comparative Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at the Harvard Law School. In that capacity, she participated in an investigatory mission to Iraq, traveled through South Africa, and researched the impact of economic sanctions in both countries. Her research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations.
In addition to serving as a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, before coming to Iowa Professor David clerked for Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and visited at the University of Chicago School of Law where she taught Contracts and Equal Protection. She has also visited at The University of Pennsylvania.
At Iowa, Professor David teaches, among other subjects, Introduction to Public International Law, International Organizations, US Foreign Relations Law, and Human Rights. She is a member and past chair of the Governing Board of the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-governmental organization that assists in ensuring that university-logoed goods are manufactured under conditions that respect the rights of workers. Her publications include a chapter on "The US Government and Women" in a multi-volume sourcebook on The International Rights of Women (Transnational Press), and articles published in Harvard International Law Journal, Michigan Journal of International Law and Human Rights Quarterly. She served as guest editor to a symposium edition of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems addressing economic sanctions on Iraq.
Professor David is a member of the New York Bar. Her international destinations include Iraq, South Africa, Europe, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Uganda, Antarctica, and Cuba.
Dale McCormick, Director of the Maine State Housing Authority
Dale McCormick has spent over three decades fighting for jobs, economic justice, health care for all, human rights, and equality for women. As a young child, she was fascinated with carpenters’ tools. That fascination has become a lifetime focus. Dale was the first woman in the country to complete a carpentry apprenticeship with the carpenter’s union. She is a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters local 1996, and has been a carpenter and contractor for 30 years.
In 1988, Dale founded Women Unlimited, a program that successfully trains women on welfare to compete for high-paying jobs in trade and technical occupations. Dale has, in her own way, become the Susan B. Anthony of today’s woman in striving to bring women aboard the work force with dignity, proper training, and fair pay. The results have been astounding and women have proven they are capable of any task they have been trained to undertake.
Dale helped found in 1984 and became the first President of the Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance (now called Equality Maine), which advocates statewide for civil rights and better treatment for lesbian/gay/bi/transgender/and questioning people.
She was a co-founder of Northeast Women in Transportation, which educated women’s organizations around the country about the opportunities in the Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) for increasing the number of women and minorities in the construction industry.
McCormick won a seat in the Maine Senate in 1990 and was re-elected twice in a conservative district. She was elected Treasurer of the State of Maine on December 4, 1996 and served 8 years. Dale is Maine’s first female Constitutional Officer.
Dale McCormick has a B.A. from the University of Iowa and has written two books: Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Woman and Housemending: Home Repair For The Rest of Us.
In 2005 Governor John Baldacci appointed Dale as Director of the Maine State Housing Authority. This quasi-governmental organization each year finances the construction of $130 million of affordable housing, weatherizes 1000 homes, serves 48,000 households on heating assistance, gets the lead out of 200 homes, assists 8,000 Mainers with their rent, and helps 1000 Mainers buy their first home.
The Faculty-in-Residence (FIR) are a vital and definitive component of the Iowa N.E.W. Leadership program. These three distinquished women leaders will be a part of our Summer Institute as presenters and committed public servants, but also as accessible mentors who live down the hall and share both meals and downtime with our participants. Playing an invaluable part in the Institute dynamic, FIR serve as accessible, informal role models and mentors to the students throughout the course of the week. While most of the program speakers attend the Institute for only a short time, the FIR are a constant, answering questions, telling stories, and offering their own perspectives on the program, leadership, and life. Late night discussions and conversations over meals give students a rare opportunity to get to know these women and develop relationships that often last long after the Institute has come to a close. Participant response to the FIR has been extremely positive. The students’ evaluations of the program consistently cite the FIR as one of the best parts of the N.E.W. Leadership experience. |
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