Associate professor of law (Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, State and Local Government)
Professor Boddie joined the Rutgers faculty in 2013 from the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) where she served as director
of litigation and oversaw LDF's nationwide litigation program,
including its advocacy in several major Supreme Court and federal
appellate cases. From 1999-2005, she litigated complex affirmative
action, employment, and school desegregation cases and also served as
LDF's Director of Education and as an Associate Director of
Litigation. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared on
television and radio programs and lectured at various law schools around
the country regarding civil rights matters.
Boddie received her
B.A. cum laude from Yale and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law
School. She also holds a masters degree in public policy from the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Following a clerkship for
Judge Robert Carter in the Southern District of New York, Boddie
litigated at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in its New
York office as the first recipient of the Fried, Frank/LDF
fellowship. She has also taught at New York Law School and Fordham Law
School. In 2012, the Law and Society Association awarded her the John
Hope Franklin Prize for exceptional scholarship in the field of race,
racism, and the law for her article, "Racial Territoriality."
She
has served on the boards of the North Star Fund, the Passaic County
Legal Aid Society and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey.
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