Mechele Dickerson

Biography

A. Mechele Dickerson joined the faculty in January 2006 and served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006-2011. She also has a courtesy appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and at the Liberal Arts Honors Program in the University of Texas College of Liberal Arts.

Professor Dickerson is a nationally recognized scholar and a global media expert on financial vulnerability, consumer debt and housing affordability. She is the author of Homeownership and America's Financial Underclass: Flawed Premises, Broken Promises, New Prescriptions and she currently is completing a manuscript on the Neglected Middle Class.

Dickerson's current research focuses on the effect COVID-19 has had on financially vulnerable Americans and she has designed and taught COVID-19 classes for graduate and undergraduate students. She regularly teaches Remedies and Federal Civil Procedure at the School of Law and also teaches courses involving financially vulnerable Americans for the Liberal Arts Honors Program.

After clerking for Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones, Dickerson practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Norfolk, Virginia before joining the law faculty at the College of William and Mary. Professor Dickerson is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Dickerson has participated in congressional briefings and has testified before a congressional subcommittee on housing unaffordability.