Staff

Sheilah D. Vance, Esq.
Executive Director
svance@ifeeo.org

Sheilah D. Vance, Esquire, Executive Director, has a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC and a B.A. in Communications, magna cum laude, from Howard University in Washington, DC.  Vance is an adjunct professor at Villanova University School of Law, where she has taught Education Law for the past seven years.  Vance previously spent nine years at Villanova Law School as Assistant Dean for Academic Support and as a legal writing professor.  She also maintains a private law practice in Philadelphia, PA.

Vance has published and presented extensively in the areas of public education and legal education, including at conferences at Oxford University in England, the American Association of Law Schools, the Education Law Association, the Law School Admissions Council, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Vance has worked in the area of education for many years.  Among previous employments, she was Project Manager for the American Cities Foundation Best Practices in Urban Education Report (2004-2005), Special Assistant to the Pennsylvania Secretary of Education (1987-89), and Editor for Higher Education Publications for the National Education Association (1981-84).

An active member of numerous professional and civic organizations, Vance received the 2006 Woman of Distinction Award from the Barristers Association of Philadelphia, the local affiliate of the National Bar Association, for “exemplary service to the community through the practice of law” and “impressive personal accomplishments as an African American attorney.”  Vance released her first novel, Chasing the 400, in February 2006.