Bonner Family Chair
President and Dean
President and Dean Camille Davidson is a balanced, insightful, and innovative higher education leader with significant experience in accreditation procedures, organizational management, strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, faculty development and evaluation, curriculum design, and academic advising for first generation students. She joined Mitchell Hamline in 2024 after a successful tenure as dean of Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School.
The only way to have real access to justice is to train folks from a particular community so that they’re really able to provide the resources to their community. Mitchell Hamline’s different pathways provide so many opportunities for folks to join us in the profession.
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
Postgraduate Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
B.A., Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.
Experience
Southern Illinois University: dean and professor of law, Simmons Law School, 2020–24; adjunct professor, Department of Population Science and Policy, School of Medicine, 2021–24
North Carolina Judicial Branch: Judicial Hearing Officer, Mecklenburg County, 2019–20
Wake Forest University School of Law: adjunct professor, 2017–18
Charlotte School of Law: associate dean for academic affairs and faculty development, 2013–17; associate dean for faculty development, 2012–13; tenured professor of law, 2014–17; associate professor, 2012–14; assistant professor, 2007–12
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina: adjunct professor/visiting assistant professor, 2004–06
The Fuller Law Firm, Charlotte, North Carolina: managing shareholder, 2001–06
Mecklenburg County (Charlotte): consultant 2000–01
United States House of Representatives: assistant counsel, Office of the Legislative Counsel, 1994–2000
District of Columbia Superior Court: judicial law clerk to Judge John H. Suda, 1993–94
United States Department of Education, Washington, DC: intern, Office for Civil Rights
Bar admission
- United States Supreme Court
- Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- North Carolina
- North Carolina,
- Western District
- Virginia (Inactive)
camille.davidson @mitchellhamline.edu