Sessions
130/131-From Paper to Practice: Reducing Liabilities in Buildings and Grounds Through Contractual Provisions and Best Practices
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Tue
Dionne Jenkins graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2003 and from Wake Forest University School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree in 2006. She started her career working in private practice focusing on the areas of criminal defense, family law, personal injury, and general civil litigation before joining the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools as a Staff Attorney in 2013. In January of 2016, she was named Chief Legal Counsel to the WS/FCS Board of Education and is the first African American to serve in that role. As the Chief Legal Counsel, she advises the Board of Education, the Superintendent, administrators, and provides various trainings to other school officials on various topics including, but no limited to, state and federal law compliance, employment law issues, board governance, student privacy and confidentiality issues, student discipline, and other education law related topics.
Dionne Jenkins is a member of the Education Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and both the state and national Council of School Attorneys. She is also a member of the North Carolina School Boards Association, where she is a frequent presenter at school law conferences for Superintendents, School Administrators, and School Board members across the State.