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Dean of the School of Law and Professor of Law
E-mail: essary@law.campbell.edu
Phone: 910-893-1751
Teaches:
MELISSA A. ESSARY, Dean of the School of Law, is a 1982 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and earned the Juris Doctor degree from Baylor University School of Law in 1985, graduating magna cum laude. As a student at the Baylor University School of Law, Essary served as Executive Editor of the Baylor Law Review. Following graduation, she served as a trial lawyer for two Texas firms, most notably the Vinson and Elkins firm of Dallas, where she litigated complex commercial cases.
In 1990, she came to the faculty at Baylor where she served with great distinction, teaching courses primarily in Employment Discrimination Law and Torts Law. At Baylor she was a well-decorated professor, having garnered Baylor's Outstanding Tenured Teacher Award in 2001, and a well-published and popular scholar in demand with audiences throughout the legal profession. Essary is actively involved in the profession through her service as a mediator in a variety of employment cases. She also has served as consulting counsel in various employment-related lawsuits.
She has authored numerous articles, and in 1997 the Texas Bar Foundation awarded her the Outstanding Law Journal Article Award for a series of articles entitled "Privacy in the Workplace." She is in demand as a speaker on employment issues by a variety of groups, including attorneys, human resources professionals, and business executives. She has presented numerous papers on employment law issues to hundreds of employment law attorneys.
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