Camille M. Davidson is the president and dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the school’s third president. In 2015, William Mitchell College of Law and Hamline University School of Law combined into one institution named Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Davidson was previously dean and professor of law of the Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School for four years, where she received the university’s Woman of Distinction Award and brought in the largest gift in the history of the university. She also taught at Davidson College and Wake Forest University School of Law and was a professor and administrator at Charlotte School of Law.
Outside of her career in higher education, Davidson has over three decades of legal experience, including a clerkship at the District of Columbia Superior Court with the Honorable John H. Suda; serving as an assistant counsel in the Office of Legislative Counsel, United States House of Representatives; private law firm practice, and as a Judicial Hearing Officer, Mecklenburg County North Carolina.
She teaches, writes, and practiced in the areas of health law and trusts and estates. She is admitted to practice law in Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Illinois, the Western District of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Davidson received a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in the District of Columbia. She was a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar and pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She received the 2015 Collaborative Research Award from the International Association of Law Schools, and presented her work in Segovia, Spain.
Davidson is a silver star and life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and a life associate member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. She is married to Attorney Trevor Fuller and they have two young adults, Jackson and Schuyler.
