Shelley Gregory '97

Shelley Gregory '97 is an attorney with the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in San Francisco, where she specializes in employment discrimination and coordinated the center’s Transgender Workers Rights Project. She joined the LAS-ELC in 2001 as a Skadden Fellow, one of only 25 law students nationwide to receive the fellowship, working on a project to address trends in workplace harassment.

She was part of a legal team that prepared a race discrimination case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, and, in 2004, argued a sexual harassment case before the California Supreme Court. She earned her law degree in 2001 at Harvard Law School, where she was co-editor-in-chief of the “Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review,” perhaps the foremost legal journal devoted to civil rights. She is a member of the California Bar.

Shelley earned her bachelor’s degree in English and communication at Carroll. As a student, she was involved in governance, serving as vice president of the Student Senate and on several committees considering the future of academics at Carroll. She was a student assistant for four years for Professor Pam Pinahs-Schultz and a student assistant coach under former Coach Sue Hansen. She also has been a legal intern at the American Civil Liberties Union in Milwaukee, and a law clerk at the Legal Aid Society.

Shelley has volunteered time to provide legal advice and representation to clients of El Buen Samaritano, a resource center in San Francisco’s Mission District that provides services to newly arrived immigrants. While in law school, she volunteered with the National Lawyers Guild to provide education on topics such as landlord-tenant law, and wrote briefs and aided lawyers working on death penalty cases through the American Civil Liberties Union. In collaboration with other students, she worked to provide free tax preparation services to the elderly through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.

Shelley currently lives in San Francisco, Calif.