Annette
Ruth Appell
Annette
Appell is Associate Dean for Clinical Studies at the
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She began her involvement in child
protection and adoption reform in 1988 as an Assistant Public Guardian in Cook
County, Illinois where she represented hundreds of children as attorney and
guardian ad litem in child protection, termination of parental rights and
adoption proceedings.
She
subsequently joined the teaching staff of the Children and Family Justice
Center at Northwestern University where she supervised students in representing
parents, relatives, and children in child protection, termination of parental
rights and adoption proceedings, taught seminars on child protection and served
on committees to reform the juvenile court.
Before
going to teach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, she was an assistant
professor at the University of South Carolina where she taught individual
liberties and a termination of parental rights clinic. At Boyd, her teaching
duties include courses in civil procedure/alternative dispute resolution and a
child welfare clinic.
Ms.
Appell has published numerous legal articles regarding children, parents and
the state, and adoption. She has
also testified before the Illinois, Nevada, and South Carolina legislatures,
and continues to serve on committees, boards and panels relating to child
welfare policy, practice and reform.