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Danielle Wingfield

Associate Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile
    Danielle Wingfield’s research focuses on civil rights, education law, and legal history, with an emphasis on the intersection of public education and family regulation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review of Note, Washington & Lee Law Review, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Richmond Law Review. She is also the co-editor of The Memoirs of Henry L. Marsh, III: Civil Rights Champion, Public Servant, Lawyer.

    Dr. Wingfield is the Associate Director of the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project, leading research on the activism of educators during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. She has co-directed major projects, including the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Ethnographic Resource Study, commissioned by the National Park Service and the First Class documentary project. She serves as Of-Counsel for the Child Advocate Law Firm, advising on education and child welfare cases.

    Dr. Wingfield joined the Richmond Law faculty from Gonzaga University School of Law, where she was a fellow and visiting assistant professor with the Center for Civil and Human Rights. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the University of Virginia Schools of Education and Law. She earned her Ph.D. in education from the University of Virginia, her J.D. from the University of Richmond, and her B.A. in sociology and philosophy from the College of William & Mary.
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    • Memberships

      American Association of Law Schools

      Association for the Study of African American Life and History

      Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association

      Family Law Section of the Virginia Bar

      Gates Millennium Education Alumni Network

      Hill Tucker Bar Association

      History of Education Society

      Law and Society Association

      Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Society

      Richmond Black Alumni Law Association

      Society of American Law Teachers

      Southeastern Association of Law Schools

    • Bar Admissions

      Virginia

    • Professional Experience

      Assistant Professor of Law (2022 - present)
      University of Richmond School of Law

      Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Fellow (2020 - 2022)
      Gonzaga University School of Law

      Attorney (2018 - 2022)
      The Child Advocate Law Firm, PLLC

      Post-doctoral Fellow (2017 - 2022)
      University of Virginia School of Education

      Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Instructor (2019 - 2020)
      University of Virginia School of Law

    • Certifications

      Bar Admission, 2015

    • Institutional Service

      American Association of Law Schools Constitutional Law Section (2025)

      American Association of Law Schools Family Law Section (2025)

      Richmond Bar Association Family Law Section (2024)

      Richmond Black Law Alumni Association (2024)

      American Association of Law Schools Children and the Law Section (2023)

      Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Society (2023)

      Gates Millennium Scholars Program (2017)

      Center for Race and Public Education in the South, University of Virginia School of Education (2018)

      American Association of Law Schools Section (AALS) on Minority Groups (2021)

      Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) (2022)

      Center for Civil and Human Rights, Gonzaga School of Law (2020)

      Hill Tucker Bar Association (2017)

      History of Education Society (2018)

      Virginia Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth (2019)

      History of Education Society (2017)

      Gates Millennium Scholars Program (2014)

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  • Publications
    Books

    Educators, Activists, and the Oral Tradition: New Directions in Oral History Research (Myers Education Press) (with Derrick Alridge et al.) (2020).

    The Memoirs of Hon Henry L. Marsh, III: Civil Rights Champion, Public Servant, Lawyer (GrantHouse Publishers) (Jonathan Stubbs) (February 2018).

    Journal Articles

    Pathways to Liberty: What Colonial, Antebellum, and Postbellum Education Can Teach us About Today, 32 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. (2023).

    Cynthia Plair Roddey: Carolina Activist and Teacher in the Movement, Teaching To Transgress: The Activism of Black Educators From Reconstruction Through The Civil Rights Movement (with Derrick Alridge et al.)

    Movement Lawyers: Henry Marsh’s Long Struggle for Educational Justice, 56 University of Richmond Law Review 1339 (2022).

    Black Teachers in the Civil Rights Movement and Black Freedom Struggle: A Historiographical Review, American Educational Research Journal (with Derrick Alridge et al.) (2020).

    Pardon Me Please: Cyntoia Brown and the Justice System’s Contempt for the Rights of Black People, 35 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 85 (2019).

    Book Reviews

    Melissa Milewski, Litigating across the Color Line: Civil Cases between Black ad White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights, 104 The Journal of African American History 691 (2019).

    Bobby L. Lovett, A Touch of Greatness: A History of Tennessee State University, The Journal of African American History (2015).

    Blog Posts

    The Right to Education in the Midst of a Pandemic, Northwestern University Law Review of Note (November 2020).