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 
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