Stacy A. Hickox Telephone:

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1 Stacy A. Hickox Telephone: EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania Law School J.D Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award Benjamin R. Jones Humanity and Law Award Comparative Labor Law Journal, Issue Editor Equal Justice Foundation, President and Treasurer Women s Law Group, Treasurer Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations B.S. with Honors, 1985 Alpern Memorial and Louis Hollander Scholarships Cornell Tradition Fellowship PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Michigan State University, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, East Lansing, MI August 2007 to present Assistant Professor with responsibility for development and teaching of employment law and human resources certification courses and webinars offered to human resources professionals. Instructor and Coordinator of workers compensation programs. Instructor for Law of Labor-Management Relations, for master degree students, in Spring Legal research and writing in areas of employment law. Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc., Lansing, MI August 2003 July 2007 Attorney representing persons with disabilities on special education, juvenile justice, and civil rights issues. Work included representation of individual children and adults with disabilities as well as systemic litigation and policy work to improve services and systems for persons with disabilities, including access to schools of choice, reduction of restraint in schools, and improvement of services for juveniles in juvenile justice and correctional facilities. Public testimony in the areas of restraint in schools, conditions in juvenile prisons, mental health services for children, and expulsion of students with disabilities. Received Michigan Bar Foundation grant to conduct educational programs regarding special education and mental health services and to host symposium on juvenile justice diversion. Committee work included Department of Human Services Waiver Work Group and Bureau of Juvenile Justice (BJJ) Training Roundtable, Michigan Rehabilitation Services/BJJ Design Team regarding transition of youth from

2 juvenile justice facilities, and Department of Community Health s Mental Juvenile Justice Committee. Pro bono work includes membership on the Board of Directors for the Lansing branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, including the lawyer s committee. Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI July 1999 June 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor in the areas of property law, civil rights, employment law and disability law. Instructor for Research, Writing and Advocacy course, including class instruction in legal analysis, objective and persuasive writing, and oral advocacy, course materials development, and eleven student contact hours per week. Pro bono work included representation of domestic relations clients for Legal Aid, membership on Board of Directors for Lansing area branch of American Civil Liberties Union, and MSU Safe Place public education and assistance of residents. Private and Pro Bono Practice, Okemos, Michigan May September 1999 Litigation in labor and employment law with Hankins & Flanigan, P.C. and in civil practice with Stuart Shafer, P.C. Experience included trials, motion practice, arbitrations and processing of grievances, depositions and settlement discussions. Pro bono experience includes criminal jury trial on First Amendment question for ACLU and representation of domestic relations clients for Legal Aid. Pro Bono Practice, Knoxville, Tennessee June August 1995 President, ACLU, Knoxville Area Chapter; Chair of Legal Committee and Secretary of Board of Directors, Oak Ridge Civil Liberties Union. Drafted legislation on temporary workers for Save Our Cumberland Mountain and Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network. Presented seminar on employment discrimination at YWCA. Private Practice, Oak Ridge, Tennessee June December 1992 Practiced with Mostoller & Stulberg in the areas of employment discrimination, civil rights, unemployment and worker s compensation, and domestic relations. Experience included jury and nonjury trials, appellate arguments and briefs, depositions, unemployment compensation and veterans administrative hearings, and settlement discussions. Represented United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Health and Retirement Funds in litigation to collect delinquent employer contributions and withdrawal liability. UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, Washington, D.C. Associate Counsel, August May 1990

3 Litigated in federal court to collect contributions to the Funds under ERISA and state law, including drafting pleadings and motion practice. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Washington, D.C. Legal Consultant, May - July 1989 Prepared appeal to U.S. Trade Representative and paper on migrant workers rights for group advancing the civil rights of Arab-Americans. American Civil Liberties Union, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Extern, January - April 1988 Weinberg Fellow, April - July 1988 Provided legal support for lobbying, including preparation of testimony and lobbying letters on drug testing, parental leave and child abuse registries. National Lawyers Guild Food Stamp Clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Executive Board Member, April April 1988 Supervised case handling, oversaw training of advocates and outreach to community and potential clients. Advocate, September May 1988 Represented food stamp recipients and applicants in administrative hearings in conjunction with Philadelphia s Community Legal Services. Art Read, Esq., Counsel for Migrant Farmworkers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Legal Assistant, Fall 1985 and Fall 1987 Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas and Adkins, Charlotte, North Carolina Summer Associate, 1987 Prepared briefs and memoranda on First Amendment and employment issues. Sagot and Jennings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Law Clerk, Spring 1987 Prepared legal memoranda for union-side labor law firm. University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Research Assistant, Professor Clyde Summers, Fall 1986 Research on legislation related to strikes by public employees. Markowitz and Richman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Law Clerk, Summer 1986 Prepared legal memoranda and briefs on various labor law issues. Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, D.C. Field Agent, January - May 1985, Summer 1984

4 PUBLICATIONS Investigated unfair labor practice charges and recommended disposition. Employer Liability for Negligent Hiring of Ex-Offenders, St. Louis Law Review (forthcoming 2010) Justifying Rejection of Applicants with Convictions, Dartmouth Law Journal (forthcoming 2010) Ensuring Fairness in the Arbitration of Employment Disputes, Widener Law Review (forthcoming 2010). Transfer as an Accommodation: Standards from Discrimination Cases and Research, 62 Arkansas Law Review 195 (2009). Foundations for Understanding the Legal Environment of HRM in a Global Context, The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management with Mark Roehling (2009). The Elusive Right to Reinstatement under the Family Medical Leave Act, 91 Kentucky Law Journal 477 (2003) Reduction of Punitive Damages for Employment Discrimination: Are Courts Ignoring our Juries? 54 Mercer Law Review 1081 (2003) A Legal Analysis of the Americans With Disabilities Act (George Mason University May 2002) Absenteeism Under FMLA and ADA, 50 DePaul Law Review 183 (2000). Book Review on Drawers of Water and Hewers of Wood, 11 Comparative Labor Law Journal 127 (1989). Labor Market Needs and Social Policy: Guestworkers in West Germany and the Arab Gulf States, 8 Comparative Labor Law Journal 301 (1987). PRESENTATIONS Seminar on Discrimination: What Training Directors Need to Know, National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee for the Electrical Industry, University of Michigan, August Presentation on ADA Amendments, Capital Health Care & Employment Council, Lansing, MI, March 2009

5 Presentation on Ethical Issues Arising under Amendments to ADA, Michigan Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns, Annual Meeting in Farmington Hills, MI, March 2009 Seminar on Changes in Rights for Employees & Applicants with Disabilities, Lansing, MI, March 2009 Seminar on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family & Medical Leave Act, Michigan Rehabilitation Conference, Traverse City, MI, November Seminar on employment discrimination claims, Michigan State University Labor Education Program, Employment Law Update, February Seminar on meeting the needs of youth transitioning out of juvenile justice facilities, Learning Disabilities Association of America national conference, February Presentations on the treatment of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice and adult criminal systems; National Association of Counsel for Children national conference, October 2006, State Conference for Juvenile Justice Specialists, Traverse City, MI, August 2005, and for Health Education Network, January 2006 & October Seminars on Litigation to Limit the Use of Restraint in Public Schools; Advocating for Successful Transition from Juvenile Justice Facilities, and Access to Public Schools; National Association of Protection and Advocacy Services national conference, Alexandria, VA, June 2005 Seminar on Advocating for the Reduction of Restraint in Schools, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Services national conference, Washington, D.C., June 2004 Developments in Employment Law, for Michigan State University Human Relations Certificate Series, East Lansing, MI, September 2002 Employment Law Update, for Bed, Bath and Beyond Human Resource Regional Managers, Chicago, IL, July 2002 Employee Rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, for Human Resource Managers of Mid-Michigan, East Lansing, MI, and for Industrial Relations Association, Lansing, MI, November 2001 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS State Bars of Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Tennessee and Michigan Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Sixth Circuit