Michele Anglade first joined the College of Law in 2006 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. She served as Assistant Dean until 2013, when she became a full time lecturer at the College.  She teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions. Before joining the legal academy, she was in private practice and served as a Commissioner and Vice-Chair of the Ethics Commission for the City and County of San Francisco, a commission charged with the administration of local regulations relating to campaign finance and good government practices. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her J.D from Harvard Law School. While in law school, she was a member and Vice-President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau; after graduation she was selected to be the law school’s first Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow.