{"id":202,"date":"2012-07-30T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:13:19","slug":"proctor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/faculty-and-staff\/proctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Proctor, J.D., Director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy and Pre-Law Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\"><strong>Old Main 314 | (304) 696-2801 |\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:patricia.proctor@marshall.edu\">Email<\/a> | <a title=\"Patricia Proctor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/spc\/about-us\/\">Web Site<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/spc\/pre-law\/\">Pre-Law<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-125\" title=\"Patricia Proctor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/files\/2012\/07\/Patricia-Proctor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/files\/2012\/07\/Patricia-Proctor.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/files\/2012\/07\/Patricia-Proctor-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patricia Proctor is the Founding Director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy.\u00a0 Before beginning her work at the Simon Perry Center in August of 2011, Ms. Proctor was a Member of the law firm Steptoe &amp; Johnson PLLC from 2004-2011.\u00a0 Prior to that, she was a partner in the law firm Drinker Biddle &amp; Reath LLP in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, practicing in its complex commercial litigation group.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Proctor earned her law degree in 1991 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a senior editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of International Business Law<\/em>.\u00a0 She graduated\u00a0<em>magna cum laude<\/em>\u00a0from Marshall University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper,<em>\u00a0The Parthenon<\/em>.\u00a0 After graduating from law school, she spent one year as a law clerk to the Honorable Stewart Dalzell of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, assisting the judge in both civil and criminal matters, before joining Drinker Biddle &amp; Reath in 1992. She has experience litigating in a variety of areas in both state and federal trial and appellate courts.\u00a0 She has also represented clients on a\u00a0<em>pro bono<\/em>\u00a0basis in a variety of civil rights and public interest matters.\u00a0 She has been recognized by her peers in\u00a0<em>Best Lawyers in America\u00a0<\/em>and in\u00a0<em>Super Lawyers<\/em><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Through the Simon Perry Center, Marshall has created a centralized pre-law advisory function for students who wish to attend law school and Ms. Proctor is the pre-law advisor.\u00a0 She provides assistance to students in assessing whether law is the best profession for them; in selecting an academic path that will prepare them well for law school; in planning the best preparation strategies for the LSAT, and in applying to law school.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Main 314 | (304) 696-2801 |\u00a0Email | Web Site\u00a0| Pre-Law Patricia Proctor is the Founding Director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy.\u00a0 Before beginning her work at the Simon Perry Center in August of 2011, Ms. Proctor was a Member of the law firm Steptoe &amp; Johnson PLLC from 2004-2011.\u00a0 Prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/1603"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/polsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}