
The 2024 Schedule
MCLE Credit: 6.0
Thursday, October 10
Optional Activities at Monticello
3:30 Tours of Monticello
5:00 Cocktail Reception, Montalto Terrace
6:30 Dinner, Montalto Conservatory
Welcome: Andrew M. Davenport, Acting Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Keynote Speaker: Robert Grey, President, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Note: Shuttle service will depart from the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center for all above events.
Friday, October 11
Race-Conscious Laws and Practices: A Phoenix?
Shuttle service will be transporting guests from the Visitor Center at Monticello to Montalto.
8:00 Registration, David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center at Monticello
8:30 Light Breakfast, Montalto Dining Room
9:00 Introduction and Welcome, Montalto Conservatory
Colleen Marea Quinn, Founder and Director, Quinn Law Centers; President, Virginia Law Foundation
Andrew M. Davenport, Acting Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
9:15 THE PATH TO SFFA
Jonathan R. Alger, President, American University
Kim Forde-Mazrui, Mortimer M. Caplin Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Aderson B. Francois, Anne Fleming Research Professor; Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Director, Institute for Public Representation Civil Rights Law Clinic
Panel Advisor and Moderator: W. Ryan Snow
10:45 Break, Montalto Dining Room
11:00 CONTOURS OF SFFA IN THE EDUCATION CONTEXT
Trevor S. Cox, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Kimberly J. Robinson, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Professor of Education, School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia; Professor of Law, Education and Public Policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia; Director, Education Rights Institute
Joseph J. Martins, Professor, Liberty University, School of Law
Panel Advisor: David Craig Landin
Moderator: Kimberly J. Robinson
12:30 Lunch, Montalto Conservatory
1:30 EDUCATION AND BUSINESS
Carlos Brown, President, Dominion Energy Services; Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary, Dominion Energy
Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, Partner, Dunlap Law, PLC and Former Director of the ACLU of Virginia
Joy Milligan, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Jimmy F. Robinson, Jr., Managing Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins
Panel Advisor: Rudene Mercer Haynes
Moderator: Jimmy F. Robinson, Jr.
3:00 Break, Montalto Dining Room
3:15 LOOKING OVER THE HORIZON
Christopher A. Duggan, Smith Duggan Cornell & Gollub LLP, Boston
Jack L. White, Partner, McGuireWoods
Panel Advisor and Moderator: Jack L. White
4:45 Closing Remarks
G. “Rex” Flynn, Jr., Attorney, The Flynn Law Firm PLLC; President, Old Dominion Bar Association
5:00 Adjourn