Brenda Reddix-Smalls - Visiting Assistant Professor
J.D., Georgetown University Law School;
LLM, Franklin Pierce Law School
Professor Reddix-Smalls has practiced law as a litigator for over thirty years. She specialized in complex litigation, juvenile law, education law, civil liberties, voting rights, municipal law, and commercial transactions. In 1993, she received the Modjeska Simpkins Flame of Justice Award for her advocacy on behalf of women and children. Reddix-Smalls served as executive director of the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1997-1998 where she was responsible for statewide litigation involving re-apportionment, voting rights and civil rights impact strategies.
Previously, in 1980, she co-founded Carolina Regional Legal services Corporation, serving as executive director and program coordinator for ten years, directing litigation for a multi-county area. Her specialties included complex litigation, appellate advocacy and consumer rights. In addition, she co-founded a Regional Health Clinic, (Manning, SC) responsible for providing health care to the medically underserved counties, women, the elderly, infants and children, pursuant to the Rural Health Development Act.
Reddix-Smalls has also supervised and litigated voting rights legislation for the state of South Carolina, guiding the implementation of single member districts for municipalities and several school boards across the state. She served as co-counsel in three death penalty trials and acted as general counsel for six years for a small municipality in South Carolina. As city prosecutor in Lake City, SC, she was responsible for minor criminal trials within the jurisdiction.
Professor Reddix-Smalls has recently begun conducting research, publishing and studies in the Intellectual Property field. After gaining an LLM in Intellectual Property, she began studying the distribution and allocation of resources, the intersection of social policy, technology and intellectual property law in the commercial sector. Having taught Uniform Commercial Sales and Administrative Law, she also litigated complex commercial and business disputes representing contractors and small businesses. She is most proud of her civil rights litigation record, handling police brutality cases, employment discrimination and bank lending discrimination from the federal district courts through the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Although she has recently litigated in the medical malpractice area, her interests in the Intellectual Property rights of artists, writers, and inventors remains her passion. She co-founded a Children’s Theatre, and Arts Foundation in South Carolina, eBushua Foundation.
She graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island with a joint degree in English American Literature and Economics.
Reddix-Smalls obtained her JD from Georgetown University Law School; and her LLM in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law School, Concord, New Hampshire.
She has served as an instructor at South Carolina State University and Midlands Technical College.
She is a member of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Association and other organizations .
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