Marcia L. McCormick, J.D.
Professor; Co-Director, William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law
Courses Taught
Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law I and II, Sexuality and the Law
Education
B.A., Grinnell College, 1989
J.D., University of Iowa College of Law, 1993
McCormick earned her B.A. from Grinnell College and is an honors graduate of the University
of Iowa School of Law. During law school, she was the managing editor of the Iowa
Law Review and was named the Outstanding Woman Law Graduate.
Practice Areas
- Civil Rights
- Constitutional Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Federal Courts
- Gender and the Law
Research Interests
McCormick's scholarship has explored the areas of employment and labor law, federal courts, as well as gender and the law.
Publications and Media Placements
Professor McCormick's work has been published in a variety of law journals, including
the Berkeley Journal of Labor & Employment Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal
of Constitutional Law, the Indiana Law Review, and others. She has contributed to
several books, and co-authors a leading casebook on Employment Discrimination Law
and a leading treatise and hornbook on Employment Law. She is also frequently sought
out by the media for legal analysis of civil rights issues.
Honors and Awards
Eileen H. Searls Service Award, 2021, SLU Law Faculty Member of the Year, 2020, Paul Steven Miller Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic and Public Contributions to the Field of Labor and Employment Law Scholarship, 2017
Community Work and Service
Marcia L. McCormick joined the SLU LAW faculty as an associate professor in 2009.
McCormick began her legal career as a staff attorney with the International Human
Rights Law Institute, where she directed analysis and research of allegations of sexual
violence committed during the war in what was formerly known as Yugoslavia. She then
went to the Illinois Attorney General鈥檚 Office, in which she litigated civil appeals
in state and federal courts. She left the Illinois Attorney General鈥檚 Office to join
the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
McCormick then moved on to Cumberland Law School at Samford University, before coming
to SLU LAW.