April Walker
Associate Professor

Joined Faculty 1990

Education:
B.A., 1982 Michigan State University
J.D., 1985 Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Phone: (713) 313-4473

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: April Walker

Biographical Information

Instructor of Law, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law 1990-Present
Associate Judge For The City Of Houston, 2000-Present
Attorney And Counselor-At-Law, Jeru and Associates, 1987
Assistant Attorney General For the State Of Texas 1986-1987
Attorney And Counselor-At-Law, Boston and Thornton, 1985-1986

Affiliations

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
American Bar Association
Appellate Litigation and Lawyering Process
Black Women's Lawyers' Association
Research and Teaching Interests
Legal Research and Writing
National Bar Associates
Phi Alpha Delta
Property Law
Real Estate Transactions
Criminal Trial Practice

Service

Chairperson of Student Faculty Relations Committee 2007-2009
Member of Faculty Appointments Committee 2007
Member of Academic Standards Committee 2005-2007
Faculty Advisor Black Law Student Association 2000-2009
Associate Judge-City of Houston 2000-2009
Orientation Instructor 2000-2008
Assisted Troop 296, Boy Scout of America in Fund Raising
Supervise Law Student with Independent Research Project-Summer & Spring 2005-2009
Professor the Year-Thurgood Marshall School of Law 2005
Recipient of 2005 Trail Blazer Award-Muskegon Michigan
Volunteer-Fallbrook Church

Publications

• Taking Flight: A Tribute to the Class of Texas Southern University 2005- Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall Law Review Fall-2005
• Application of the Insanity Defense to Postpartum Disorder-Driven Infanticide in the United States: A Look toward the Enactment of an Infanticide Act. University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class Spring-2006
• The Extreme Consequence of Parental Alienation Syndrome-The Richard Lohstroh Case of a Child Driven to Kill his Father-Will Courts Move Toward Allowing Children to Use Parental Alienation Syndrome as a Defense to the Crime of Murder of Their Own Parent Rutgers Law School Women’s Rights Law Reporter Summer -2006
• His, Hers or Ours? – Who Has The Right to Determine the Disposition of Frozen Embryos After Separation or Divorce? Buffalo Women’s Law Journal Fall-2008