2022
- Speaker and Award Recipient, AJEI Summit Sandra Day O’Connor Award Ceremony; Scottsdale, AZ; November 10, 2022
- Speaker, ABA Labor & Employment Annual Meeting; Washington, DC; November 9, 2022
- Speaker, Anti-Racist Courtroom Course; Memphis, TN, October 31 – November 3, 2022
- Speaker, S. Court of Federal Claims Annual Conference; Washington, DC; October 20, 2022
- Speaker, PLI: Supporting Diverse and Inclusive Legal Workplaces 2022: Allyship and Sponsorship; Washington, DC; October 17, 2022
- Speaker, Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules; Washington, DC; October 12-13, 2022
- Speaker, 2022 MBA Bench Bar Conference; Fairhope, AL; September 30 – October 2, 2022
- Speaker, Slovakia Rule of Law Program; Virtual; September 22, 2022
- Speaker, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules; September 14-15, 2022
- Speaker, Law Clerk Orientation; Cincinnati, OH; September 13-14, 2022
- Speaker, 100th Anniversary of Constance Baker Motley Birth; New York, NY; September 12, 2022
- Speaker, Implicit Bias: What it is, and Strategies for Dealing with it; FJC National Conference for Pro Se and Death Penalty Staff Attorneys, San Diego, CA; September 6-8, 2022
- Speaker, AJA Annual Conference; When Justice Fails: Threats to Judicial Independence; Philadelphia, PA; August 28-29, 2022
- Speaker, NITA Teaching Motion Skills Program; Virtual; August 17-19, 2022
- Speaker, Antitrust Leadership Summit; Santa Fe, NM; August 9 -11, 2022
- Speaker, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation National Leadership Summit; Minneapolis, MN; August 3 – 4, 2022
- Speaker, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; Louisville, KY; July 28-29, 2022
- Speaker, NBA Annual Meeting; Memphis, TN; July 24-29, 2022
- Speaker, IP Bench Book Planning, July 18-24, 2022
- Speaker, National Advocacy Center Appellate Advocacy Course; Columbia, SC; July 13-16, 2022
- Speaker, Prayer Breakfast – Norma Henderson; Memphis, TN; June 25, 2022
- Speaker, Bench/Bar Lawyers as Leaders in Unity, Democracy, and the Rule of Law; Nashville, TN; June 16
- Speaker, ACC Foundation Women in Law Conference; Judge Donald Panel, The Global Rise in Women Leadership; The Institute of Peace, Washington, DC; June 13-15, 2022
- Speaker, NJC Democracy’s Last Line of Defense; Mary 25-26, 2022
- Judge, Judicial Panel – PLI Electronic Discovery Institute; New York, NY; May 10-12, 2022
- Speaker, Fighting Implicit Bias Panel – Federal Judges Association Quadrennial Conference; Washington, DC; May 1-3, 2022
- Speaker, Becker Retreat; Naples, FL; April 29 – May 1, 2022
- Judge, AJA Conference – Moderating Panel; Napa, CA, April, 2022
- Speaker, Cornell Moot Court Camp; Ithaca, NY; April 22-24, 2022
- Speaker, Judicial Workshop – North American Judges; United Nations, New York, NY; April 21-22, 2022
- Speaker, Harvard Law Guest Lecturer, Legal Profession: Public Interest Lawyering Class; Cambridge, MA; April 13-14, 2022
- Speaker, Michigan: Beyond Justice Ketanji Brown: Black Women Judges and the Federal Courts: Virtual; April 11, 2022
- Speaker, Criminal Justice Section Spring Meeting; Savannah, GA; April 7-10, 2022
- Judge, Antitrust Section Spring Meeting; Washington, DC, April 5-8, 2022
- Speaker, Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules; San Diego, CA; March 29-30, 2022
- Speaker, Implicit Bias: Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Annual Seminar; Atlanta, GA; March 24, 2022
- Judge, University of Michigan Law – Campbell Moot Court Competition; Ann Arbor, MI; March 21, 2022
- Judge, ERR Midwinter Panel; Puerto Vallarta, MX; March 16-18, 2022
- Speaker, Chicago Filming: Chicago, IL; March 7, 2022
- Speaker, White Collar Crime Institute; San Francisco, CA; March 2-5, 2022
- Speaker, Boston University Lecture Black History Month; Boston, MA; February 22, 2022
- Speaker, Fifth Circuit Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference; New Orleans, LA; February 2-4, 2022
- Speaker, Antitrust Mid-Winter Meeting; Santa Barbara, CA; January 21-24, 2022
2021
- Speaker, Implicit Bias; Judge Joe Lee Bankruptcy Institute; Lexington, KY; December 9, 2021
- Speaker, Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Conference, Alabama State Bar; Gulf Shores, AL; October 9, 2021
- Speaker, Diversity and Inclusion Panel; NCBJ Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN; October 7, 2021
- Speaker, Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women Empowerment Conference; Nashville, TN; September 10, 2021
- Speaker, Websites and the ADA: Applicability, Standards, Penalties, and Mitigation Strategies; PLI Briefing; Virtual; July 27, 2021
- Speaker, Where the Judiciary, Legislative, and Executive Branches Meet; National Bar Association Annual Convention; Virtual; July 26, 2021
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Selection; Tennessee Bar Association Federal Law Section CLE; Virtual; July 23, 2021
- Speaker, Conferencing and Collegiality Part I Implicit Bias; New Appellate Judges Seminar; Virtual; July 22, 2021
- Speaker, Use of Facility Dogs in Court; Online Learning and Faculty Development; National Judicial College; Virtual; July 21, 2021
- Speaker, Implicit Bias; Shelby County Public Defender Summer Internship Speaker Series; Virtual; July 12, 2021
- Speaker, Implicit Bias; National Organization of Black County Officials; National Harbor, MD; July 10, 2021
- Speaker, Implicit Bias; National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees Seminar; Washington, D.C.; July 7, 2021
- Speaker, Eastern District of Missouri Magistrate Judges Implicit Bias Training; Virtual; June 30, 2021
- Speaker, Hiding in Plain Sight: How Implicit Bias Affects the Legal Profession; Knoxville Bar Association; Virtual; June 23, 2021
- Speaker, Sentencing and Implicit Bias, Annual Tennessee Judicial Conference; Memphis, TN; June 17, 2021
- Speaker, Global Women & Juneteenth: 156 Years On – Reflections on Obstacles to Emancipation; American Bar Association International Law Section; Virtual; June 15, 2021
- Speaker, Judging Implicit Bias: The Role of Implicit Bias in Judicial Decision-Making; American Jewish Committee and Northern California Chapter of the Federal Bar Association; Virtual; June 15, 2021
- Speaker, Promoting Judicial Collegiality, Berkeley Judicial Institute; Virtual; May 14, 2021
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit IDEA Initiative Session 5; Virtual; May 12, 2021
- Speaker, Michigan Supreme Court Judicial Conference (Implicit Bias); Virtual; May 6, 2021
- Speaker, IP Law Essentials for the Judiciary, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training; Virtual; May 6, 2021
- Speaker, The Memphis Society of Human Resource Managers Annual Legal Conference; Memphis, TN; April 20, 2021
- Speaker, Criminal Law Speaker Series, Fordham Law; Virtual; April 19, 2021
- Speaker, Legal Profession Course, Harvard Law School; Virtual; April 15, 2021
- Speaker, Intersectionality, ABA International Law Section; Virtual; April 14, 2021
- Judge, University of Memphis First-Year Moot Court Competition, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; Memphis, TN; April 7, 2021
- Speaker, Faculty Development Talk, Widener University Delaware Law School; Virtual; April 1, 2021
- Speaker, Virtual Film Series, From Coded Bias to Algorithmic Fairness, Clarkson University; Virtual; March 29, 2021
- Speaker, The Importance of a Diverse Federal Judiciary, House Committee on the Judiciary; Virtual; March 25, 2021
- Speaker, Woman Advocate and Minority Trial Lawyer Committees, ABA Section of Litigation; Virtual; March 24, 2021
- Speaker, Antitrust and Antiracism: What Lies Ahead?, ABA Antitrust Law Section; Virtual; March 24, 2021
- Speaker, Changing the Landscape of Title VII, Employment Rights and Responsibilities; Virtual; March 19, 2021
- Speaker, Elevating and Engaging Black Judges, American Constitution Society; Virtual, March 17, 2021
- Speaker, Board of Judges Weekly Lunchroom, Southern District of New York, Juror Bias Presentation; Virtual; March 17, 2021
- Speaker, Dignity Rights Law in Practice, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women; Virtual; March 16, 2021
- Speaker, Defending ADA Website Compliance Lawsuits: You Do Have Options, Practising Law Institute; Virtual; March 15, 2021
- Judge, Kaufman Moot Court Competition, Fordham Law; Virtual; March 14, 2021
- Judge, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Moot Court Competition; Virtual; March 5, 2021
- Speaker, Lunch Panel, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Virtual; March 5, 2021
- Speaker, Supreme Court Argument, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting; Virtual; March 4, 2021
- Judge, Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, American Bankruptcy Institute; Virtual; March 1, 2021
- Judge, Rossi Moot Court Competition, Cornell Law School; Virtual; February 27, 2021
- Speaker, ABA, Judicial Trailblazers and the Hills They’ve Climbed; Virtual; February 26, 2021
- Speaker, ABF Fellows CLE Research Seminar; Virtual; February 19, 2021
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit IDEA Initiative’s 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge – One Hour Group Discussion; Virtual; February 5, 2021
- Speaker, FBA Civil Rights Section: Implicit Bias Webinar; January 28, 2021
- Speaker, PREX 2021 Corporate EDiscovery Hero Awards; Virtual; January 26, 2021
- Speaker, Age of Dignity in Europe: Book Group Discussion; Virtual; January 22, 2021
- Judge, All Star Bracket Challenge Moot Court Competition; Virtual; January 21, 2021
- Speaker, Virtual CLE Memphis: Race and the U. S. Economy after Ratification of the U. S. Constitution; January 14, 2021
- Speaker, ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice and Center for Human Rights: The Individual and the State: A Conversation on Dignity and the Law; Virtual; January 14, 2021
- Speaker, ABA Wellness Wednesday: Program on Teaching and Speaking Judicial Opportunities Abroad; Virtual; January 13, 2021
2020
- Speaker, Virtual Roundtable Series for the Judiciary; December 16, 2020
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit IDEA Session 2; Virtual; December 4, 2020
- Speaker, The Sedona Conference Resources: Judicial Management of Electronically Stored Information (ESM) Webinar; Virtual; December 3, 2020
- Speaker, Joint Inns of Court and Tennessee Bar Association Program on Professionalism and Social Justice: Empowering Lawyers as Leaders; Virtual; December 1, 2020
- Speaker, Harvard BLSA Judicial Speaker Series; Virtual; November 20, 2020
- Speaker, CJS Fall Meeting Closing Plenary: Confronting Our History Panel; Virtual; November 20, 2020
- Speaker, CJS Fall Meeting: Rule of Law Panel; Virtual; November 20, 2020
- Speaker, PLI CA MCLE Marathon 2020; Virtual; November 16, 2020
- Speaker, New Hope Baptist Church 150th Anniversary; Southaven, Mississippi; November 15, 2020
- Speaker, DEI in the Legal Profession Award Presentation; Virtual; November 12, 2020
- Speaker, Beyond the Numbers, ABA Labor and Employment Section; Virtual; November 12, 2020
- Speaker, Symposium on Mental Health and the Legal Profession, Fordham Law; Virtual; November 6, 2020
- Speaker, Lawyers, Judges, and Social Media, ABA Webinar; Virtual, November 5, 2020
- Speaker, Memphis Bar Association: Bankruptcy Section Annual CLE Presentation; Virtual; November 5, 2020
- Speaker, NELA Fall Seminar: Recognizing and Combatting Implicit Bias; Virtual; October 29, 2020
- Speaker, ACS UVA Student Chapter: Discussion on Clerkships; Virtual; October 29, 2020
- Speaker, International Association of Lawyers Virtual Congress 2020; October 28, 2020
- Speaker, CJS: We’re All in This Together; Virtual; October 28, 2020
- Speaker, Joint Inns of Court and Tennessee Bar Association: Lawyers as Leaders Program; Virtual; October 27, 2020
- Speaker, NCBJ Gender and Judging; Virtual; October 23, 2020
- Judge, University of Tennessee, Knoxville School of Law Moot Court Competition; Virtual; October 22, 2020
- Speaker, Vanderbilt Law School Lecture; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) October 21, 2020
- Speaker, Global Antitrust Institute Antitrust Economics Institute for Federal Judges; Scottsdale, Arizona; October 18, 2020
- Speaker, 2020 NBA Wiley Branton Symposium Schedule; Virtual; October 16, 2020
- Speaker, University of Denver; Virtual; October 16, 2020
- Speaker, NCBJ Gender and Judging; San Diego, California; October 15, 2020
- Speaker, CJS Rule of Law Series; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) October 14, 2020
- Speaker, Symposium on Economics and Law of Cannabis Markets; Denver, Colorado; October 11, 2020
- Speaker, City of Memphis Implicit Bias Program; Virtual; October 1, 2020
- Speaker, AABA Implicit Bias Program; Virtual; September 24, 2020
- Speaker, IDEA Panel Session I; Virtual; September 24, 2020
- Speaker, Liberty Achievement Award Awards Ceremony; Virtual; September 16, 2020
- Speaker, Ohio Judicial Conference; Columbus, Ohio; September 11, 2020
- Speaker, American University Racial Justice and the Courts; Virtual; September 10, 2020
- Speaker, Women of Color and the Robe Webinar; Virtual; September 9, 2020
- Speaker, Tennessee Human Rights Commission: Tennessee Department of Human Resources Virtual Employment Law Seminar; Virtual; September 2, 2020
- Speaker, Hofstra University; Virtual; September 2, 2020
- Speaker, UPS African American Business Resource Group Meeting; Virtual, August 27, 2020
- Speaker, AIJA 58th Annual Congress; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) August 26, 2020
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Center, Court Web; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) August 18, 2020
- Speaker, Federal Magistrate Judges Association; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) August 6, 2020
- Speaker, A Call to Action: Race, Equity, & the Antitrust Law Section Panel; Virtual; August 5, 2020
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section; Implicit Bias Training; Virtual; August 2, 2020
- Speaker, ABA, Conversation with Fmr. Ambassador Melanne Verveer: Women’s Rights are Human Rights – 25 Years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; Virtual; July 31, 2020
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) July 17, 2020
- Speaker, National Employment Lawyers Association; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) July 8, 2020
- Speaker, NELA Annual Convention; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) July 8, 2020
- Speaker, Shelby County Defender’s Program; Memphis, TN; (Implicit Bias) July 6, 2020
- Speaker, K & L Gates Conversation About Race; July 2, 2020
- Speaker, May I Approach? Courts and the Power of Inclusion: The Impact of Black Women as Appellate Judges; Alliance for Justice; July 1, 2020
- Speaker, C. Bar CLE: The History of the 19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage; Washington, D.C.; June 25, 2020
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Center and New York University Employment Law Workshop for Federal Judges; New York, NY; (Implicit Bias) March 9, 2020
- Speaker, Cornell University; Ithaca, New York; March 4, 2020
- Speaker, Northern District of Ohio, Pretrial Services and Probation Office; Implicit Bias Training; Cleveland, OH; March 2, 2020
- Speaker, UC Berkeley Law Colloquium: Courts and Judicial Process; San Francisco, California; February 27, 2020
- Speaker, AO: African American Heritage Month Celebration; Washington, D.C.; February 25, 2020
- Speaker, Justice Television Network Interview: National Advocacy Center; Columbia, South Carolina; February 19, 2020
- Speaker, ABA Mid-Year Meeting; Austin, Texas; (Implicit Bias) February 14, 2020
- Speaker, Tennessee Human Rights Commission, Department of Human Resources, Memphis Area Employment Law Seminar; Memphis, TN; (Implicit Bias) February 13, 2020
- Speaker, CJS 50th Anniversary Celebration; Virtual; (Implicit Bias) February 10, 2020
- Speaker, National Bar Association Judicial Council Mid-Winter Meeting; Cape Town, South Africa; January 26, 2020
- Speaker, MLK Luminary Award Awards Ceremony; January 20, 2020
- Speaker, Zeta Phi Beta Founders Day; January 18, 2020
- Speaker, ABA Antitrust Midwinter Leadership Meeting; 2020 Antitrust Midwinter Leadership; British Columbia, Canada; January 11, 2020
- Speaker, Annual Trial Advocacy College; Charlottesville, Virginia; January 3, 2020
2019
- Speaker, Appellate Judges Educational Institute; Washington, D.C.; (Implicit Bias) November 17, 2019
- Speaker, NCBJ Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C.; October 31, 2019
- Speaker, CLDP & U.S. Embassy Montenegro Workshop; Tivet, Montenegro; October 24 – 25, 2019
- Speaker, Roadways to the Bench; Washington, D.C.; October 24, 2019
- Speaker, ABA Forum on Construction Law; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 23, 2019
- Speaker, S.-Croatia Judicial Workshop; Zagreb, Croatia; October 21-22, 2019
- Speaker, 2019 Rotary District 6490 Conference, Bloomington, Illinois; October 18, 2019
- Speaker, DOJ OPDAT Roundtable Discussion for Sandiganbayan Justices of Financial Crimes and Money Laundering; Manila, Philippines; October 6, 2019
- Judge, Regent University School of Law Hassell Moot Court Competition; Virginia Beach, Virginia; October 5, 2019
- Speaker, 55th Anniversary of Freedom Summer; Indianola, Mississippi; October 3, 2019
- Speaker, IU McKinney School of Law and Eli Lilly; Indianapolis, Indiana; September 30, 2019
- Speaker, Legal Services of Greater Miami; Implicit Bias Training; Miami, FL; September 23, 2019
- Speaker, PREX Conference 2019; Chicago, Illinois; September 19, 2019
- Speaker, Federal Bar Association Chattanooga Chapter Annual Meeting; August 20, 2019
- Speaker, Federal Criminal Defense Seminar; Denver, Colorado; August 15, 2019
- Speaker, ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary; Implicit Bias Training; San Francisco, CA; August 9, 2019
- Speaker, Western District of Tennessee Implicit Bias Training for Federal Judges; Memphis, TN; July 26, 2019
- Speaker, CLE: Understanding the Dark Web and Its Impact on the Judicial System; New York, New York; July 21, 2019
- Speaker, International Standards Task Force; The Hague, Netherlands; July 17, 2019
- Speaker, American Association of Law Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Symposium; Washington, D.C.; July 14, 2019
- Speaker, ISRCL Conference; Brisbane, QLD, Australia; July 9, 2019
- Speaker, National Police Accountability Project, Race Matters; St. Paul, MN; (Implicit Bias) June 21, 2019
- Speaker, Memphis Chamber of Commerce; Memphis, TN; (Implicit Bias) June 19, 2019
- Speaker, Aleph: Rewriting the Sentence Summit; New York, New York; (Implicit Bias) June 17, 2019
- Speaker, Women in Criminal Justice Task Force Meeting; Spokane, Washington; June 13, 2019
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit Judicial Retreat; Mackinac Island, Michigan; June 11, 2019
- Speaker, Department of Justice: Appellate Chiefs Conference; Columbia, South Carolina; June 7, 2019;
- Speaker, ACS National Convention Kick Off Event; Washington, D.C.; June 5, 2019
- Speaker, Federal Bar Association Eastern District Michigan Chapter; Implicit Bias Training; Detroit, MI; Wednesday, May 28, 2019
- Speaker, 2019 Litigation & GPSolo CLE Conference; New York, New York; May 3, 2019
- Speaker, Africa Regional Intellectual Property Enforcement Training for Judicial Instructors; Gaborone, Botswana; April 21, 2019
- Speaker, Tennessee Law Review Symposium; Knoxville, Tennessee; April 18, 2019
- Speaker, Southwestern Association of Law Libraries 2019 Annual Meeting; Little Rock, Arkansas; April 14, 2019
- Speaker, San Francisco Business and Professional Women, Inc.; San Francisco, California; April 13, 2019
- Speaker, Commonwealth’s Attorney Services Council Spring Institute; Norfolk, VA; (Implicit Bias) April 8, 2019
- Judge, Case Western Reserve University Moot Court Competition; Cleveland, Ohio; April 6, 2019
- Speaker, ABA National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Diversity Luncheon; Coral Gables, Florida; (Implicit Bias) April 3, 2019
- Speaker, 67th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting; Washington, D.C.; March 27, 2019
- Speaker, AWA Women’s History Month CLE Panel; Memphis, Tennessee; March 26, 2019
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Center and New York University Employment Law Workshop for Federal Judges; New York, NY; (Implicit Bias) March 21, 2019
- Speaker, FJC Employment Law Workshop for Federal Judges; New York, New York; (Implicit Bias) March 20, 2019
- Speaker, 2019 Humanitarian Awards 10th Anniversary Dinner: Illinois Holocaust Museum; Chicago, Illinois; March 13, 2019
- Speaker, ABA National White Collar Crime Institute; New Orleans, Louisiana; (Implicit Bias) March 8, 2019
- Speaker, City of Atlanta – Local Government Seminar; Atlanta, GA; (Implicit Bias) March 7, 2019
- Speaker, City of Atlanta Local Government Seminar; Atlanta, Georgia; (Implicit Bias) March 5, 2018
- Speaker, Women in Criminal Justice Task Force Meeting; Albuquerque, New Mexico; March 1, 2019
- Speaker, University of Chicago Law Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner; Chicago, Illinois; February 28, 2019
- Speaker, Dartmouth Lawyers Association; Implicit Bias Speaker; Big Sky, MT; February 23, 2019
- Speaker, Vanderbilt Law School Lecture; Nashville, Tennessee; February 20, 2019
- Speaker, Dream Keepers: New Hope Baptist Church; Memphis, Tennessee; February 17, 2019
- Speaker, ABA Section of Litigation, Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar; San Antonio, TX; (Implicit Bias) February 15, 2019
- Speaker, Lawyers Without Rights and German Federal Bar Event; New York, New York; February 7, 2019
- Speaker, 48th Annual SRBLSA Convention; Memphis, Tennessee; February 2, 2019
- Speaker, ABA Midyear Meeting, Judicial Division and State and Local Government Section; Las Vegas, NV; (Implicit Bias) January 26, 2019
- Speaker, ABA Mid-Year Meeting; Las Vegas, Nevada; (Implicit Bias) January 24, 2019
- Speaker, NBA Judicial Council Mid-Winter Meeting; Panama City, Panama; January 18, 2019
- Speaker, National Trial Advocacy College University of Virginia School of Law; Charlottesville, Virginia; January 5, 2019
2018
- Speaker, MBA Presentation – Cross Cultural Issues; December 18, 2018
- Speaker, FJC: Judicial Independence and the Federal Courts: A Historical Perspective; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; December 13, 2018
- Speaker, Memphis Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Annual Meeting; (Implicit Bias) December 7, 2018
- Speaker, MBA L&E Meeting; (Implicit Bias) December 5, 2018
- Speaker, Forum on Business and Human Rights; Geneva, Switzerland; November 25, 2018
- Speaker, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Annual Symposium; Hyattsville, MD; (Implicit Bias) November 12, 2018
- Speaker, ABA Annual Section of Labor & Employment Law Conference; San Francisco, California; November 9, 2018
- Speaker, CJS Fall Institute; Washington, D.C.; (Implicit Bias) November 2, 2018
- Speaker, NCBJ Conference; San Antonio, Texas, October 28, 2018
- Speaker, Trial Network’s Fall Conference; Half Moon Bay, California; October 25, 2018
- James Madison Lecture, New York University School of Law; October 22, 2018
- Judge, UT College of Law Advocates’ Prize Competition; Knoxville, Tennessee; October 18, 2018
- Speaker, Florida Bar Criminal Justice Summit; Tampa, Florida; October 17, 2018
- Speaker, 2018 Civil Rights & Social Justice Fall Meeting; Montgomery, Alabama; October 10, 2018
- Speaker, SOC Fall Leadership Meeting; Chicago, Illinois; (Implicit Bias) September 26, 2018
- Speaker, Smart on Crime Innovations Conference John Jay College of Criminal Justice; New York, New York; September 25, 2018
- Speaker, Eleanor Roosevelt Prize Dinner (CHR); New York, New York; September 13, 2018
- Speaker, Workshop on Intellectual Property Adjudication, September 7, 2018
- Speaker, Washington University Convocation, St. Louis, Missouri; August 19, 2018
- Speaker, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Ohio and Federal Bar Association, Northern Ohio Chapter; Federal Criminal Practice Seminar; Cleveland, OH; (Implicit Bias) August 17, 2018
- Speaker, ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois; August 2, 2018
- Speaker, NBA Annual Judicial Convention; New Orleans, Louisiana; August 1, 2018
- Speaker, ABI Annual Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop; Amelia Island, Florida; (Implicit Bias); July 28 – 29, 2018
- Speaker, NBA Annual Judicial Convention; New Orleans, Louisiana; July 27, 2018
- Speaker, CLDP Workshop on Adjudication of Civil Intellectual Property Infringement Cases; Batumi, Georgia; July 17, 2018
- Speaker, The Scourge of Trafficking in the 21st Century; Montreal, Quebec; July 15, 2018
- Speaker, Judicial Colloquium on Handling Administrative, Civil, and Criminal IP Cases; Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar; July 9, 2018
- Speaker, NELA Annual Convention; Chicago, Illinois; June 27, 2018
- Speaker, Equal Justice Society, Mind Science Conference; Oakland, CA; (Implicit Bias) June 22, 2018
- Speaker, Pathway to the Bench; Tampa, Florida; June 19, 2018
- Speaker, Women’s Day Mt. Pisgah C.M.E Church; Memphis, Tennessee; June 18, 2018
- Speaker, Arkansas Bar Association Annual Meeting and Arkansas Judicial Council; Hot Spring, AR; (Implicit Bias) June 15, 2018
- Speaker, ABA Paris Meetings; Paris, France; June 7, 2018
- Speaker, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota; Judges’ In-Court Seminar; Alexandria, MN; (Implicit Bias) May 31, 2018
- Speaker, FJC: Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age Seminar; Berkeley, California; May 22, 2018
- Speaker, American Law Institute Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C.; May 21, 2018
- Speaker, Capital Area Bar Association, Jackson, Mississippi; May 17, 2018
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference; Nashville, Tennessee; May 15, 2018
- Speaker, FJC: Basics of Employment Law Discrimination; Washington, D.C.; May 14, 2018
- Speaker, FJA Quadrennial Conference; Washington, D.C.; May 6, 2018
- Speaker, Associate Executive Director Global Programs Meeting; Washington, D.C.; May 1, 2018
- Speaker, Memphis Bar Association Bench Bar Conference; Saint Louis, Missouri; April 27, 2018
- Speaker, Polish Judges Association Conference; Warsaw, Poland; April 19, 2018
- Speaker, Dignity Rights and Environmental Justice Symposium; Wilmington, Delaware; April 12, 2018
- Speaker, Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting; Washington, D.C.; April 10, 2018
- Speaker, S. District Court and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike; Memphis, Tennessee; April 5, 2018
- Speaker, Justice Donald L. Corbin Appellate Symposium; Little Rock, AR; (Implicit Bias) March 30, 2018
- Judge, Seigenthaler-Sutherland Cup National First Amendment Moot Court Competition; Washington, D.C.; March 24, 2018
- Speaker, University of Georgia School of Law, Jurist in Residence; Athens, GA; (Implicit Bias) March 19, 2018
- Speaker, Gideon’s Promise Event: Igniting Change 2018; Atlanta, Georgia; March 16, 2018
- Speaker, American Constitution Society Student Convention; Implicit Bias Training; Chicago, IL; March 10, 2018
- Speaker, Illinois College of Law Judicial Diversity Symposium; Champaign, Illinois; February 26, 2018
- Speaker, Fordham Law Symposium, The Future of Neuroscience and Law; New York, NY; (Implicit Bias) February 21, 2018
- Speaker, ABA Mid-Year Meeting; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; January 31, 2018
- Speaker, Labor & Employment Law Mock Trial Competition; New Orleans, Louisiana; January 28, 2018
- Speaker, Judicial Council Mid-Winter Meeting; Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; January 21, 2018
- Speaker, SOL Winter Leadership Meeting; Honolulu, Hawaii; January 18, 2018
- Speaker, Detroit Martin Luther King Day; Detroit, Michigan; January 14, 2018
- Speaker, 37th Annual National Trial Advocacy College 2018; Charlottesville, Virginia; January 6, 2018
2017
- Speaker, CLDP MENA Workshops on the Enforcement of Arbitral Awards; Casablanca, Morocco; December 12 – 13, 2017
- Speaker, FJC: Pathways to the Federal Bench and Bar; Washington, D.C.; December 5, 2017
- Speaker, UN Forum on Business and Human Rights; Geneva, Switzerland; November 27, 2017
- Speaker, Hamilton’s Vision: Federalism, National Authority, and Judicial Review; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; November 15, 2017
- Speaker, ABA 11th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference; Washington, D.C.; November 10, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Harvard Summit; Cambridge, Massachusetts; November 7, 2017
- Speaker, 2017 Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute & FJC National Symposium for U.S. Court of Appeals Judges; Washington D.C; November 1, 2017
- Speaker, Memphis/Mid-South Chapter of the Federal Bar Association: Annual Seminar; Memphis, Tennessee; October 27, 2017
- Speaker, University of Mississippi School of Law; Oxford, MS; (Implicit Bias) October 18, 2017
- Speaker, National Association for Women Judges Annual Conference; Atlanta, GA; (Implicit Bias) October 13, 2017
- Speaker, Northwest Arkansas Judicial Council; Springdale, AR; (Implicit Bias) October 12, 2017
- Speaker, National Association of Women Judges 39th Annual Conference; Atlanta, Georgia; October 3, 2017
- Speaker, Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) IP Adjudication Workshop; Batumi, Georgia; September 22, 2017
- Speaker, ASEAN Colloquium for the Judiciary on Management of Civil and Criminal IP Appellate Cases; Bangkok, Thailand; September 15, 2017
- Speaker, White Collar Crime Annual Seminar; Washington, D.C.; (Implicit Bias) September 15, 2017
- Speaker, National Conference for Pro Se Law Clerks: Federal Judicial Center; Charleston, South Carolina; September 8, 2017
- Speaker, 4th Continuing Judicial Development Seminar; Dili, Timor-Leste; August 24, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Annual Meeting; New York, New York; August 10, 2017
- Speaker, NBA Annual Judicial Council Meeting; Toronto, Ontario; August 2, 2017
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Center, National Workshop for Magistrate Judges; Chicago, IL; (Implicit Bias) August 1, 2017
- Speaker, 2017 National Workshop for Magistrate Judges: Federal Judicial Center; Chicago, Illinois; (Implicit Bias) July 31, 2017
- Speaker, ABF-Aspen Institute Justice and Society Seminar; Evanston, Illinois; July 21, 2017
- Speaker, Memphis/Mid-South Chapter of the Federal Bar Association Seminar; (Implicit Bias) July 19, 2017
- Speaker, International Association of Defense Counsel Annual Meeting; Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; (Implicit Bias) July 12, 2017
- Speaker, ISRCL 30th International Conference; San Francisco, California; July 9, 2017
- Speaker, 26th Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing; St. Petersburg, Florida; June 28, 2017
- Speaker, National Employment Lawyers Association, Annual Convention; San Antonio, TX; (Implicit Bias) June 23, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Second Global White Collar Crime Institute; Sao Paulo, Brazil; June 7, 2017
- Speaker, Private Luncheon and Meeting with ICC President Fernandez; Washington, D.C.; June 5, 2017
- Speaker, Equal Justice Society, Resilience of Racism Conference; Oakland, CA; (Implicit Bias) June 2, 2017
- Speaker, Equal Justice Society Resilience of Racism Conference; Oakland, California; June 1, 2017
- Speaker, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar, Bench-Bar Boardroom; Branson, MO; (Implicit Bias) May 18, 2017
- Speaker, AFL-CIO LCC Union Lawyers Conference; Denver, CO; (Implicit Bias) May 16, 2017
- Speaker, Workshop for Judges of the Sixth Circuit: Federal Judicial Center; Cleveland, Ohio; May 7, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section 2017 Spring Meeting; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; May 4, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference; San Francisco, California; May 2, 2017
- Speaker, Center for Human Rights Spring Meeting; Washington, D.C.; April 28, 2017
- Speaker, Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, District Judges Annual Spring College; (Implicit Bias) April 20, 2017
- Speaker, Third Circuit Judicial Conference; Lancaster, PA; (Implicit Bias) April 19, 2017
- Speaker, University of Georgia School of Law 2017 Russell Moot Court Competition; Athens, Georgia; April 14, 2017
- Speaker, Duke Law 2017 Hardt Cup Championship Round Moot Court Competition; Durham, North Carolina; April 11, 2017
- Speaker, Yale Law School: Undermining Democracy Through Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Class Lecture; New Haven, Connecticut; April 10, 2017
- Speaker, The University of Memphis Law Review 2017 Symposium; Memphis, Tennessee; April 7, 2017
- Speaker, Judicial Responsibility for Justice in Criminal Courts Conference; Hempstead, New York; April 6, 2017
- Speaker, Federal Judicial Center, National Workshop for Magistrate Judges; Portland, OR; (Implicit Bias) April 4, 2017
- Speaker, Texas Tech University School of Law Criminal Law Symposium; Lubbock, Texas; March 31, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section, Maryland State Bar Association; Bar Association of Baltimore City, and Baltimore School of Law; Baltimore, MD; (Implicit Bias) March 29. 2017
- Speaker, NYU Law 2017 Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition; New York, New York; March 28, 2017
- Speaker, ERR Midwinter Meeting; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; March 21, 2017
- Speaker, USC Gould School of Law Hale Moot Court Competition; Los Angeles, California; March 10, 2017
- Speaker, Pace University School of Law National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition; White Plains, New York; February 25, 2017
- Speaker, University of Memphis Black Law Students’ Association Inaugural Diversity Banquet; Memphis, Tennessee; February 23, 2017
- Speaker, University of Cincinnati, College of Law, Jurist in Residence; Cincinnati, OH; (Implicit Bias) February 21, 2017
- Speaker, University of Cincinnati: Jurist in Residence; Cincinnati, Ohio; February 20, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Center for Human Rights: Justice Defenders Program; Nairobi, Kenya; February 10, 2017
- Speaker, American Bar Foundation Mid-Year Meeting; Miami, Florida; February 1, 2017
- Speaker, January Sitting: U.S. Court of Appeals; Cincinnati, Ohio; January 23, 2017
- Speaker, National Action Network Michigan Chapter 4th Annual Dream Keepers Brunch; Detroit, Michigan; January 16, 2017
- Speaker, ABA Section of Litigation Winter Leadership Meeting; Bermuda; January 13, 2017
- Speaker, Hillsborough County Bar Association; Tampa, Florida; January 11, 2017
2016
- Speaker, Memphis Bar Association 10th Annual Professionalism Seminar; December 20, 2016
- Speaker, American College of Bankruptcy; Washington, D.C.; December 16, 2016
- Speaker, Virgin Islands Bar Association Annual Meeting; Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; December 9, 2016
- Speaker, December Sitting: U.S. Court of Appeals; Cincinnati, Ohio; December 5, 2016
- Speaker, Memphis Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Seminar; Memphis, Tennessee; December 2, 2016
- Speaker, University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; Implicit Bias Conference; Memphis, TN; November 18, 2016
- Speaker, ABA 2016 Professional Success Summit; Atlanta, Georgia; November 14, 2016
- Speaker, ABA 10th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference; Chicago, Illinois; November 11, 2016
- Speaker, Mid-Town Rotary Club; Memphis, Tennessee; November 8, 2016
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute; Washington, D.C.; November 4, 2016
- Speaker, Campus Sexual Violence National Institute; Washington, D.C.; November 3, 2016
- Speaker, ABA Center for Human Rights Fall Meeting 2016; Washington, D.C., November 1, 2016
- Speaker, International Association of Lawyers; Budapest, Hungary; October 28, 2016
- Speaker, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges: ABA Program on Bankruptcy Appeals; San Francisco, California; October 27, 2016
- Speaker, Connecticut Young Lawyers Section’s 2016 Diversity Award Dinner; New Haven, Connecticut; October 26, 2016
- Speaker, Right to Counsel Judicial Roundtable; Washington, D.C.; October 25, 2016
- Speaker, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers New Fellows Reception; Detroit, Michigan; October 24, 2016
- Speaker, U.S. Justice Department; Washington, D.C.; (Implicit Bias) October 22, 2016
- Speaker, One Church One School 19th Partnership Conference Awards Luncheon; Oak Lawn, Illinois; October 21, 2016
- Speaker, National Civil Rights Museum 25th Freedom Award; Memphis, Tennessee; October 20, 2016
- Speaker, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys; Al Jaddaf, Dubai; October 8, 2016
- Speaker, 2016 ABA Construction Forum; Chicago, Illinois; October 6, 2016
- Speaker, ABA SOL Fall Leadership Meeting; Austin, Texas; October 6, 2016
- Speaker, 2016 International Humanitarian Law Dialogs; Nuremberg, Germany; September 28, 2016
- Speaker, September Sitting: U.S. Court of Appeals; Cincinnati, Ohio; September 26, 2016
- Speaker, NABJ Media Institute on Legal Affairs; Washington, D.C.; September 24, 2016
- Speaker, SOC Fall Leadership Meeting; Chicago, Illinois; September 21, 2016
- Speaker, Southern Center for Human Rights Symposium; Atlanta, GA; (Implicit Bias) September 20, 2016
- Speaker, ALI Project Meeting; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; September 14, 2016
- Speaker, Administrative Office of the U.S. Court, Defender Services; Atlanta, GA; (Implicit Bias) September 8, 2016
- Speaker, ABA 2016 Annual Conference; San Francisco, California; (Implicit Bias) August 4, 2016
- Speaker, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Case Management Meeting; Cincinnati, Ohio; August 2, 2016
- Speaker, Senior Status Planning Conference; San Diego, California; July 27, 2016
- Speaker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Conference; Implicit Bias Training; Big Sky, MT: July 13, 2016
- Speaker, National Association of Attorneys Conference; (Implicit Bias) July 12, 2016
- Speaker, National Constitution Center Second Founding Advisory Board Launch; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; May 10, 2016
- Speaker, Louisville Metro Public Defender Implicit Bias Training, Louisville, KY, (Implicit Bias) May 10, 2016
- Speaker, Connecticut Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Institute; New Britain, Connecticut; May 6, 2016
- Speaker, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Federal Defender Implicit Bias Training; Philadelphia, PA; May 4, 2016
- Speaker, ABA CJS Spring Meeting; Albuquerque, New Mexico; April 29, 2016
- Speaker, FJC National Workshop for Bankruptcy Judges; Albuquerque, New Mexico; April 19, 2016
- Speaker, Judicial Education Conference, Lombard, IL, (Implicit Bias) April 2016
- Speaker, Implicit Bias Author’s Meeting; Chicago Illinois; April 6, 2016
- Speaker, American Bar Association, Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School, (Implicit Bias) March 2, 2016
- Speaker, ABA Mid-Year Meeting; San Diego, California; February 7, 2016
- Speaker, Illinois Judicial Education Conference; Lombard, Illinois; (Implicit Bias) February 2, 2016
2015
- Jurist-in-Residence, American University Washington College of Law, October 2015
- Speaker, ABA CJS Fall Institute; Washington, D.C.; October 22, 2015
- Speaker, 4th International White Collar Crime Institute; London, England; October 12, 2015
- Speaker, National Conference of State Tax Judges: 35th Annual Meeting; Cambridge, Massachusetts; October 1, 2015
- Speaker, USPTO Intellectual Property Program; Mexico City, Mexico; September 29, 2015
- Speaker, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges: 89th Annual Conference; Miami Beach, Florida; September 27, 2015
- Speaker, OPDAT Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Program; Lima, Peru; September 6, 2015
- Speaker, Mid-Career Seminar; September 1, 2015
- Demonstrator, Department of Justice Criminal Appellate Advocacy Program, Aug. 2015
- Panelist, Race in Federal Criminal Court, Defender Services Office, Aug. 7, 2015
- Speaker, ABA Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL; July 30, 2015
- Speaker, Workshop for Judiciary on Digital Piracy and Copyright Enforcement; San Jose, Costa Rica; July 21, 2015
- Speaker, National Employment Lawyers Association Conference; Atlanta, GA; June 27, 2015
- Speaker, International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law: 28th International Conference; Edinburgh, Scotland; June 21, 2015
- Speaker, ABA Judicial Division: Magna Carta; London, England; June 12, 2015
- Moderator, ABA Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crime Program, May 2015
- Speaker, ABA Criminal Justice Section: Breaking Developments in Criminal Practice (Implicit Bias), May 2015
- Faculty, ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Lecture to the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 2015
- Speaker, Kentucky Bar Association 2015 Diversity and Inclusion Summit; April 9, 2015
- Speaker, ABA – CJS Nominating Committee Meeting with Jane Messmer & Matt Redle; Washington, D.C.; April 8, 2015
- Speaker, ABA and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: Ferguson Discussion; Ferguson, MO; April 6, 2015
- Panelist, Montpelier Program, Dolley’s Diplomacy, Charlottesville, Virginia, Mar. 2015
- Speaker, ABA CJS 29th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime; New Orleans, LA; March 4, 2015
- Panelist, TIPS: Women in the Profession, American Bar Association Midyear Meeting; Houston, TX; Feb. 4, 2015
- Speaker, NBA Judicial Council Mid-Winter Meeting; Montego Bay, Jamaica; January 14, 2015
- Speaker, ABA Litigation Section Winter Leadership Meeting; Laguna Beach, CA; January 8, 2015
2014
- Panelist, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 2014
- Presenter, 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Acts, Bench Bar Conference, Western District of Michigan Federal Bar Association, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Sept. 2014
- Presenter, Implicit Bias, EEOC EEO Training Seminar, Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 2014
- Keynote Speaker, Seminar on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Acts, Federal Bar Association, Greeneville, Tennessee, Sept. 2014
- Speaker, Court IT Program Assessment; Ghana; September 1, 2014
- Speaker, ABA Section of Criminal Justice Committee Orientation; August 21, 2014
- Speaker, 2014 ABA Annual Meeting; Boston, MA; August 8, 2014
- Moderator and Speaker, various topics including Ethics and Professional Responsibility, ALI–CLE Conference on Employment Law, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2014
- Presenter, Promoting & Supporting Diversity in Appellate Practice & Writing for Your Audience, Defense Research Institute Appellate Advocacy Program, Chicago, Illinois, Jul. 2014
- Presenter, Pragmatic Brief Writing, National Employment Lawyers Association, Boston, Massachusetts, Jun. 2014
- Speaker, International Law Institute’s Program for the Ugandan Judiciary, Georgetown University, Jul. & Dec. 2014
- Commencement Speaker, Legal Studies Program, University of California – Berkeley, May 2014
- Keynote Speaker, 2014 Law Day Event, Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association, May 2014
- Speaker, Closing Arguments, ABA Litigation Section Annual Conference, Apr. 2014
- Speaker, “Leadership in Diversity” for Mississippi Bar Association Annual Meeting, Apr. 2014
- Panel Moderator, “Is it Learning to Lead or Learning to Lean In? Cross-Cultural Lessons from Women Around the World,” ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting, New York, March 1, 2014
- Speaker, Quarterly Luncheon for the Eastern District of Michigan Federal Bar Association; Detroit, MI; February 19, 2014
- Speaker, Black History Month 2014 Presentation; February 18, 2014
- Keynote Speaker, Annual Wade McCree, Jr. Award Luncheon, Eastern District of Michigan Federal Bar Association, Feb. 2014
- Speaker, ABA Section of Litigation Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar; Rancho Mirage, CA; February 1, 2014
- Jurist in Residence, Washington University School of Law, Jan. 29, 2014
- Keynote Speaker, Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court Winter Banquet, Knoxville, Tennessee, Jan. 2014
2013 and Other
- WIPO-USPTO Judicial Colloquium on Intellectual Property Rights, Washington, DC, Dec. 2013
- Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting, Western District of Michigan Federal Bar Association, Oct. 2013
- Keynote Address, Legal Diversity Summit, University of Nebraska College of Law, Sept. 2013
- White House Research Workshop on “Parental Incarceration in the United States: Bringing Together Research and Policy to Reduce Collateral Costs to Children,” Washington, DC, Aug. 2013
- Issues on Comparable Worth – Department of Energy, Knoxville, TN
- Getting Women Elected to Office, Tennessee
- Women’s Political Caucus, Nashville, TN
- Presenter, Domestic Violence: A Blue Print for Action, American Judges Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Presenter, “Preparing Youth for Leadership,” Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Memphis, Tennessee
- Presenter, Presiding in a Criminal Court, A Workshop National Institute of Justice, Phoenix, Arizona
- Presenter, The Automatic Stay – “For Protection When You Need It Most,” Federal Bar Association, Memphis, Tennessee
- Host, “Studio – 97” and “Lawscope” Radio Programs, 1981 – 1982
- Speaker, Gender and Race Bias, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis
- Participant, numerous television shows to discuss legal and judicial issues
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