Professor David Cleveland Elected to Serve as President-Elect of the Association of Legal Writing Directors

Professor David Cleveland has been elected president-elect of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). With more than 400 members representing over 130 law schools, ALWD is the leading academic legal writing organization in the United States. ALWD is the ABA affiliate group for legal writing and engages with the ABA’s Council of Legal Education and Standards Review Committee on behalf of the legal writing community. Cleveland is an experienced litigator and accomplished scholar, specializing in legal writing, legal ethics, and federal court reform issues. His widely cited scholarship includes works on federal court reform, legal writing pedagogy and history, and discrimination law. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in the legal writing community.

Professor Cleveland is a nationally recognized expert in federal court structure and reform and a leader in the legal writing community. His widely cited scholarship includes works on federal court reform, legal writing pedagogy and history, and discrimination law. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in the legal writing community, including as a member of the board of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He has a history of service and leadership in the law school setting having previously served as Dean, Associate Dean, and Legal Writing Director. In 2017, he was awarded the Jack A. Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service and in 2020 he was selected for the Legal Writing Institute’s rarely-given Terri LeClercq Courage Award. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from the College of Education at Western Michigan University.