Kendra Fershee, BA, JD
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Professor
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Ahmanson Law Center 271
Kendra Fershee, BA, JD
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Professor
Professor Kendra Huard Fershee joined the faculty at Creighton University School of Law in 2019, where she teaches family law courses and Professional Responsibility. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School, where she served as the Senior Managing Editor of Tulane Law Review. She also represented her class to the Dean’s Advisory Council for all three years of law school and served as a Senior Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing curriculum during her third year.
Following law school, Professor Fershee practiced commercial litigation for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York, NY, and Washington, D.C. She then spent a year teaching Legal Analysis, Research and Writing at Penn State Dickinson School of Law in State College, Pennsylvania. After her year at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Professor Fershee taught at the University of North Dakota School of Law for five years, where she taught Lawyering Skills, Employment Discrimination, and Advanced Trial Advocacy. She moved from North Dakota to West Virginia to teach family law courses, Civil Procedure - Jurisdiction, and Professional Responsibility from 2012-2019. Prof. Fershee also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at West Virginia University from 2015-2018.
Prof. Fershee writes about issues affecting young parents, such as access to education, custody issues, and the process of termination of parental rights for all parents. She has served as the Editor in Chief of the Family Law Quarterly, a journal that explores family law issues from a scholarly and practical perspective, since 2015.
Before law school, Professor Fershee had a career in political organizing. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with a double major in Communications and Political Science, she worked for a non-profit political organization in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California for five years, primarily focusing on access to public education and First Amendment rights. In 2018, Prof. Fershee brought her two passions of policy and law together when she ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee for the First District of West Virginia.
Curriculum Vitae
Department
Law
Position
Professor
General
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Family law quarterly 2019
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Family law quarterly 2018
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Family law quarterly 2017
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Family law quarterly 2016
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Same-sex marriage in West Virginia 2015
- Fershee Kendra Huard, Writing professional e-mail 2012
Articles
- Nebraska Lawyer
Fershee Kendra Huard, Legal professionalism in a(n increasingly necessary) digital age, p. 51 - 53 2020 - Nebraska Lawyer
Fershee Kendra Huard, Wadas-Thalken Katherine S., Protecting pregnant and parenting students through proactive enforcement of Title IX in Nebraska
23:2, p. 13 - 17 2020 - GPSolo
Fershee Kendra Huard, Custody disputes by unmarried gay or lesbian parents
32:4, p. 68 - 69 2015
Publications
- Creighton Legal Insights
Fershee Kendra, Project Publius 2026 - Creighton Law Review
Fershee Kendra, Title IX protections for pregnant and parenting students in the Dobbs era
56:3, p. 299 - 318 2023 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
53:4, p. 447 - 500 2020 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
52:4, p. 657 - 689 2019 - North Dakota Law Review
Fershee Joshua, Fershee Kendra, A tribute to Patti Alleva
94:2, p. 346 - 348 2019 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
51:4, p. 619 - 641 2018 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
50:4, p. 633 - 654 2017 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
49:4, p. 663 - 674 2016 - West Virginia Law Review Online
Fershee Kendra Huard, Lifting the burden
117, p. 29 2015 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, Annual survey of periodical literature
48:4, p. 731 - 741 2015 - Georgia State University Law Review
Fershee Kendra Huard, The parent trap
30:3, p. 639 - 702 2014 - Family Law Quarterly
Fershee Kendra Huard, The prima facie parent
48:3, p. 435 - 469 2014 - William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law
Fershee Kendra Huard, A parent is a parent, no matter how small
18:3, p. 425 - 473 2012 - Maryland Law Review Endnotes
Fershee Kendra Huard, The new legal writing
71, p. 1 - 19 2011 - Hofstra Law Review
Fershee Kendra Huard, An act for all contexts
39:2, p. 281 - 327 2010 - Indiana Law Review
Fershee Kendra Huard, Hollow promises for pregnant students
43:1, p. 79 - 116 2009 - Tulane Law Review
Fershee Kendra Huard, Discretionary recusal and the appearance of partiality through the eyes of the Fifth Circuit in Republic of Panama v. American tobacco Co.
77:2, p. 517 - 525 2002