CURRICULUM VITAE

Suzanne Reynolds
Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Present Employment & Professional Activities:

Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, since July, 1989

Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, April, 1986 - July, 1989

Assistant Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, May, 1981 - April, 1986

Current teaching assignments

Contracts

Family Law

Professional Responsibility

Former teaching assignments

Business Organizations

Real Property Security

Legal Research and Writing

Family Law: Selected Topics

Current Law School and University committees

Dean's Advisory Committee, Chair

Faculty sponsor, Domestic Violence Advocacy Center

Law School Professionalism Committee

Loan Forgiveness Committee

Coach, Gabrielli Family Law team

Former Law School and University committees

Dean's Search Committee, Chair (2006-07)

Faculty Evaluation Committee, Chair

Faculty Appointments, Chair

University Chair Committee

Faculty sponsor, Women in Law

Senator, University Senate

Steering Committee, Association of Women Faculty and Administrators

Advisory Board, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Advisory Board, Ethics in Leadership Grant

Selected Professional Service

Co-founder, DVAC, the Domestic Violence Advocacy Center of Forsyth County (1996-present)

Women in the Profession, Changing Face of Justice Planning Committee, N.C. Bar Association (2006-07)

Women in the Profession, Long Range Planning Chair, N.C. Bar Association

United Way of Forsyth County, Impact Council on Domestic Violence, Co-Chair

Children's Law Center of North Carolina, Board of Directors

Chair, Alimony Drafting Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association, 1995

Adoption Statutes Drafting Committee, General Statutes Commission, 1994

Lecturer, Family Law, BARBRI Bar Review Course (since 1994)

Professional Organizations:

American Bar Association

North Carolina Bar Association

Forsyth County Bar Association

North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys

Forsyth County Women Attorneys

North Carolina Civil Liberties Union

Publications:

Suzanne Reynolds, Lee's North Carolina Family Law, (5th ed. 1993, 1999, and 2002)(a 3-volume treatise surveying family law topics, with emphasis on the law of North Carolina; annual supplements).

Suzanne Reynolds, Ralph Peeples, and Catherine Harris, Back to the Future: An Empirical Study of Child Custody Outcomes, 85 N.C. Law Rev. 1629 (2007).

Suzanne Reynolds, The Increase in Value of Separate Property and the Evolving Marital Partnership, 24 Wake Forest L. Rev. 239 (1989).

Suzanne Reynolds, The Relationship of Property Division and Alimony: The Division of Property to Address Need, 56 Fordham L. Rev. 827 (1988).

Selected Presentations and Papers:

Interviewer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "The Changing Face of Justice," Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC, October 18, 2007

Interviewer, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "A Conversation with Sandra Day O'Connor," Wait Chapel, Winston-Salem, NC, September 21, 2006

Interviewer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg," Wait Chapel, Winston-Salem, NC, September 28, 2005

Speaker and Manuscript, "Case Update on Family Law, N.C. Association of Women Attorneys, Asheville, NC, October 2006

Speaker and Manuscript, "Case Update on Family Law," N.C. Bar Foundation, Litchfield Beach, NC, May 2006

Interviewee on National Public Radio, impact of Lawrence v. Texas on N.C. cohabitation statute, June, 2005

Speaker and manuscript, "Equitable Distribution," N.C. Bar Foundation, High Point, November, 2004; Winston-Salem, November, 2002

Speaker and manuscript, "National Trends in the Appreciation of Separate Property," N.C. Bar Foundation, Wrightsville Beach, February, 2004; Charlotte, November, 2003

Speaker, "Legal Update and Trends in Alimony, Equitable Distribution, and Custody," N.C. Assoc. of Professional Family Mediators, Greensboro, December, 2003

Speaker, "Family Law Update," Legal Aid Society of Northwest North Carolina, Winston-Salem, December, 2003

Speaker and manuscript, "Custody Update," N.C. Association of Women Attorneys, Annual Meeting, Wrightsville Beach, October, 2003

Speaker and manuscript, "National Trends in Family Law," N.C. Family Law Specialists, Charleston, S.C., July, 2003

Speaker and manuscript, "Case Update on Family Law," N.C. Bar Foundation, Wrightsville Beach, May 2002 and 2003

Speaker, ABA Panel on Professionalism, ABA Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y., July, 2000

Interviewee with AP wire service and various radio news services about criminal charges against Rae Carruth under abortion statutes, January, 2000

Speaker, "North Carolina Adoption Reform," at Defining Family: Adoption Law and Policy, Duke University, Durham, April, 1994

Speaker, Governor's Task Force on the Family, Raleigh (1994)

Speaker, "Ethical Problems for the Family Law Practitioner," North Carolina Bar Association, Wrightsville Beach, May, 1993

Speaker, "Basics in Family Law," North Carolina Bar Association, Fall, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992

Speaker, "Responding to Perinatal Addiction," Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, April, 1992

Lecturer, "Changes in the Laws Affecting Women and the Challenge for Third Generation Feminists," Emily Prudden Lecturer, Pfeiffer College, March, 1992

Speaker and panelist, "Women and the Law," Meredith College, Raleigh, April, 1991 (with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor)

Educational Background:

J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, May, 1977, cum laude

M.A., UNC-Chapel Hill, 1976; Major Field - English, Minor Field - Journalism

B.A., Meredith College 1971, summa cum laude; Major Field - English

Prior Work Experience:

Attorney, Smith Moore Smith Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N.C., August, 1977 - May, 1981. Admitted to practice in N.C. and U.S. District Court for the Middle District of N.C.

Awards:

Woman of Wisdom

North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, October, 2006

Governor's Distinguished Woman of North Carolina for Education 1998

Co-founder of DVAC,

Cited by the ABA in the Harrison Tweed Award for a bar association's legal services to the poor, July, 1998

Gwyneth B. Davis Award for Public Service

North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys 1996

Joseph Branch Teaching Excellence

Wake Forest University School of Law 1994

Other Activities:

St. Anne's Episcopal Church,

Senior Warden, 2005-06

Vestry, 2003-06

Choir member, 1998-present

Center for Urban Ministries, Board of Directors, 2006-09

Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina, Board of Directors, 2006-present

Center for Community Safety, Board of Directors, 2001-present

Meredith College, Board of Trustees, 2001-04; Executive committee, 2003-04

Personal Information:

Date of Birth:	July 5, 1949
Birthplace:	Lexington, North Carolina
Marital Status:	Married to Robert M. (Hoppy) Elliot, partner, Elliot Pishko Morgan P.A.
Children:	Michael, born, 2/22/80
	Caroline, born, 7/10/82
	Lillie, born, 4/7/87