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Brenda Reddix–Smalls

Professor of Law

Brenda Reddix–Smalls
  • BA, Brown University
  • JD, Georgetown Law Center
  • LLM, Franklin Pierce Law Center
  • brendareddixsmalls@piercelaw.edu
  • (603) 513-5191
  • Courses: Administrative Process and UCC, Article 2 Sales
  • Committees: Appeals

Reddix–Smalls has a private practice in Columbia, SC where she specializes in complex litigation, juvenile law, education law for school boards, civil liberties, voting rights and personal injury. She served as executive director the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the National Association of Advancement for Colored People from 1997–98, where she was responsible for statewide litigation involving re–apportionment, voting rights and civil rights impact strategies. Prior to that she was associate counsel at Edwards & Associates and the Law Firm of John R. Harper. In 1993, she received the Modjeska Simpkins Flame of Justice Award for her advocacy on behalf of women and children.

In 1980, she co–founded of the Carolina Regional Legal Services Corporation, serving as its executive director and program coordinator for ten years and directing litigation for a three–country area. Her specialties included complex litigation, appellate advocacy and consumer rights. In addition, she co–founded a Regional Health Clinic responsible for providing medical assistance pursuant to the Rural Health Development Agency Act. providing health care to the underserved counties, women, infants and children.

Reddix–Smalls has also supervised and litigated voting rights legislation for the entire state of South Carolina, implementing single member districts for municipalities and several school boards across the state. She handled three death penalty trials as co–counsel and acted as general counsel for six years for a small municipality in South Carolina. As city prosecutor in Lake City, SC she was responsible for city–wide trials with in the jurisdiction.

She is most proud of her civil rights litigation record, handling police brutality cases, employment discrimination and bank lending discrimination from the district court through the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

She also served as an adjunct professor at South Carolina State University, and instructor at Midlands Technical College.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Association, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, and the National Legal Aid and Public Defenders.

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