Jaclyn A. Cherry

Assistant Professor of Law
Department of Clinical Legal Studies

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Professor Jaclyn Cherry's teaching and publications focus on Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Law. She recently became an Editor for the American Law Institute, (ALI), Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, and the 2d edition of her text Understanding Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations, LexisNexis, will be published January 2012. Her 2nd edition casebook Tax Exempt Organizations: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis) was published in September 2008.

Professor Cherry established the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic at the University of South Carolina School of Law in January 2009. Through this clinic, third year law students provide free legal services to approximately 20 nonprofit organizations throughout the state on a wide variety of issues each year. These efforts have allowed Jaclyn to work with community groups and leaders to advance systemic change. As a founding partner of the South Carolina Volunteer Lawyers Association (along with the USC Pro Bono Program, SC Arts Commission and the SC Bar Association Pro Bono Program), the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic provides legal services to nonprofit arts organizations throughout South Carolina.

Before joining the law faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2008, Jaclyn served as a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Economic and Community Development Law Clinic and Associate Director of Clinical Legal Education at Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for over 10 years. Jaclyn taught, presented papers and workshops, and wrote in the nonprofit, tax exempt and other areas.

Jaclyn was a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law during the summer of 2003 teaching a Nonprofit Tax Exempt Organizations course to J.D. and L.L.M. students.

She has served as General Counsel to Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh, as an Attorney-Senior Compliance Officer for Mellon Mortgage Company, a judicial law clerk in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and as an Attorney with Mistick, Sittig & Weiss, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Lawyers Abstract Company/ agent of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company.

Jaclyn received her J.D. degree from Duquesne University School of Law and her B.A. degree from Seton Hill University (magna cum laude). Along with several nonprofit courses, Jaclyn teaches Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiations.