Background
Thorpe, Charlena Latrelle was born on November 15, 1971 in Macon, Georgia, United States.
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Charlena Latrelle Thorpe
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Charlena Latrelle Thorpe, American lawyer. Bar: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Georgia, United States District Court Georgia, registered: (patent attorney). Recipient Dean's Public Service award, Emory University School Law, 2000;, National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, 1994-1997, Georgia Technology President's fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Education
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with high honors, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. Juris Doctor, Emory University, 2000.
Career
Cooperative educational student Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, 1990—1993. Calculus/electrical engineering tutor Georgia Institute of Technology Office Minority Educational Development, 1991—1994. Research assistant/teaching assistant Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994—1997.
Student research engineer Motorola Inc., Libertyville, Illinois, 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1996. Student associate Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak, & Seas, Washington, 1998, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Limited liability partnership, Atlanta, 1999—2000, associate, 2000—2002, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, 2002—2004. Member The Thorpe Firm, Inc., Suwanee, 2005.
Associate Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, since 2005. Lecturer Georgia Institute of Technology, since 1999. Pro bono attorney The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, 2002—2004.
Achievements
Membership
Member of American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, State Bar of Georgia (intellectual property section), Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.
Connections
Married Charles E. Thorpe, Junior.
