Professor Kimberly Norwood

Biography

Kimberly Norwood is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University School
of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate work at Fordham University and received
her J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. After law school, she clerked for Federal District Court in
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She then practiced law with Bryan Cave, LLP in St. Louis, Missouri
and then joined the Washington University School of Law faculty in 1990. She received tenure in 1996; in
2015, she received the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, and in 2016, she was honored
with the Henry H. Oberschelp Chair.

At the law school, she teaches courses in personal injury, education equity in K-12 public schools,
and implicit biases in life and law. She has taught/lectured in China, Greece, Japan, Utrecht, and Taiwan;
and she has supervised externships in Ghana and Kenya. She is the principal partner of KJN Equity
Consultants, LLC. Her first book: Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias & the Myth of a Post-Racial America, was
published in 2014. Her second book: Ferguson’s Fault Lines: The Race Quake that Rocked a Nation was
published in 2016.

Her extracurricular activities include: chair of the diversity subcommittee of the ABA State, Local &
Tribal Government Law Section; co-vice chair of the education committee for the ABA Civil Rights and
Social Justice Group; commissioner with the Missouri Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic
Fairness; member of the Monitoring Team for the U.S v. Ferguson Consent Decree; member of the
American Law Institute; fellow with the American Bar Foundation; elected councilwoman Creve Coeur,
Missouri, Board member with St. Louis Survivors Legal Support.

Her husband of thirty-eight years is a partner at Lewis Rice, a law firm in St. Louis. The couple has
four adult children.