Kimberly Willis, JD

Kimberly Willis earned a BBA in Marketing with highest honors from the University of Georgia. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and is an affiliate of the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. During her legal career, she practiced corporate and securities law at both Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver and Jacobson, and Hunton & Williams. Her career in education includes administrative positions at several educational nonprofit institutions and at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Since coming to Brenau, she has spearheaded the development of Brenau’s four course Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution concentration. She has also developed and is the lead professor for courses in Business Law, Business Ethics, Negotiation Theory and Practice, Organizational Conflict Resolution and Mediation. She has facilitated numerous workshops focused on ethics, conflict resolution and negotiation. Currently, she is a registered neutral with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. She serves on the Gwinnett County Juvenile Court Citizen Panel Review Board. She also is a member of both the Georgia and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations.