Texas A&M Law welcomes Katherine Mims Crocker as a new Professor of Law. Her appointment includes teaching and research on federal courts, civil rights litigation, structural constitutional law, and state and local government law.
Crocker joins the faculty from William & Mary Law School, where she has served as an Associate Professor of Law since 2019. During her tenure at William & Mary Law, she served as an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and a Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Her scholarship has been published in some of the country’s leading law journals, including the Duke Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Florida Law Review.
“The faculty is thrilled about the arrival of Professor Crocker,” said Robert B. Ahdieh, Texas A&M Law Dean and Vice President for Professional Schools and Programs. “She brings to Texas A&M a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and insight that will help us build a world-class constitutional law program.”
Prior to her time at William & Mary, Crocker practiced law at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she focused on appellate litigation and dispositive motions. She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Crocker earned her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and served as an Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.