APRIL 17, 2006 -- Assistant Professor of Law Nancy
L. Zisk has been named "Professor of the Year" by
students at the Charleston School of Law.
Zisk, who has her bachelor's degree and law degree from Duke
University, is the first individual to win the honor. Last year,
the first "Professor of the Year" award went to the
entire faculty for its dedication to students and the decision
they made to join a new law school, according to John Robinson,
president of the Student Bar Association.
"Any recipient of the Professor of the Year Award is remarkable
because of our already-high standards," Robinson said. "Professor
Zisk has demonstrated a devotion to learning in the classroom
that is widely recognized and is an important contribution to
the success of our first-year students.
"Professor Zisk is committed to out-of-classroom volunteer
work with students and she has been a source of counsel and comfort
to so many students in their time of need. She is an exemplar
of what we have come to expect from a professor and a paragon
of the virtues that define members of the Charleston School of
Law community."
Zisk, who was selected by a vote of the student body, said she
was honored by the award.
"The students in both the first- and second-year classes
make teaching extremely rewarding," she said. "They
are excited and enthusiastic about what they are doing and they
make teaching an absolute joy. I feel very lucky to be a part
of this school."
Prior to joining the Charleston School of Law, Zisk served as
an adjunct professor of law at the Washington College of Law at
American University in Washington, D.C., where she taught Remedies.
She also was in private practice, with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, and Ross, Dixon & Bell, both in Washington, D.C.,
where she specialized in employment and complex insurance coverage
litigation, and most recently as a sole practitioner in Fairfax
County, Virginia.
