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D. Wendy Greene

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Assistant Professor



Phone: 
205.726.2419
Fax: 
205.726.4216

Cumberland School of Law
Samford University
800 Lakeshore Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35229


B.A., cum laude, English, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1999

J.D., Tulane University Law School, 2002

LL.M., The George Washington University Law School, 2008

A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Professor Greene joined the Cumberland School of Law faculty in 2007. She is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana and Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. While at Tulane, Professor Greene clerked for the South Carolina Department of Social Services Office of the General Counsel, the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, and the governmental relations firm of R. Duffy Wall & Associates. Also as a law student, Professor Greene represented indigent clients in civil rights cases for the Tulane Law Civil Litigation Clinic.

Following graduation from Tulane, Professor Greene was employed with the Capitol Hill Consulting Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm, and Neel and Hooper, P.C. in Houston, Texas, a boutique labor and employment law firm specializing in the representation of management. Professor Greene also completed graduate legal studies at the George Washington University Law School. Her areas of scholarly concentration were employment discrimination and comparative slavery and race relations law in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Professor Greene teaches Employment Discrimination, Equitable Remedies, Race and American Law, and Real Property. Her additional teaching and research interests include: civil rights, constitutional law, comparative slavery and race relations law, and law and literature.