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Mary Margaret Oliver Visiting Professor, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic child advocacy
Mary Margaret Oliver co-teaches "Advocacy for Children in the 21st Century-An Interdisciplinary Approach to Policy Development" and supervises students in the semester clinical placement. She also coordinates the Barton Fellowship program, which sponsors two post-graduate fellowships for lawyers and public health related professionals to work with clinic research and evaluation child protection projects. Ms. Oliver served in the Georgia General Assembly, first in the House from 1987 to 1992, having been elected in a special election, and then in the state Senate from 1992 to 1998. She chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee for all six years of her Senate terms, and authored and passed systematic reform legislation of Georgia's child protection agencies. Ms. Oliver was re-elected to the state House in 2002, and was appointed Chair of the House Judiciary Committee in 2004. Prior to her election she served as a state administrative hearing officer and a magistrate court judge, and has practiced law privately for eighteen years. She has also taught full time as an assistant professor at Boston College School of Law. Visiting Professor, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic. B.A., 1969, Vanderbilt University; J.D., Emory University School of Law, 1972. |