Kathleen Neal Cleaver

Background

Cleaver, Kathleen Neal was born on May 13, 1945 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Daughter of Ernest Eugene and Pearl Juette (Johnson) Neal.

Education

Student, Oberlin College, 1963-1964; student, Barnard College, 1965-1966; Bachelor in History summa cum laude, Yale University, 1984; Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1988.

Career

Faculty research assistant (part-time), Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984-1985, 85-87; summer associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, New York City, 1985; summer law clerk, Office of the General Counsel and Federal Rels., Yale University, 1986; summer associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, 1987; part-time associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 1987-1989; associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 1989-1991; research fellow, Yale University Law School, 1991; law clerk to Honorary A. Leon Higginbotham Junior, United States Court Appeals (3rd. circuit), Philadelphia, 1991-1992; assistant professor Law, Emory University School Law, Atlanta, since 1992. Fellow Bunting Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994-1995. Guest speaker on television, radio.

Participant in public and university programs in Switzerland, U. Heidelberg, U. Frankfort in Germany, various United States colleges universities. Speaker at numerous civic, service and church groups, schools and colleges in San Francisco Bay Area, 1976-1980.

Achievements

• Kathleen Neal Cleaver has been listed as a notable Law educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Communications secretary Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1967-1969. Member American Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Eldridge Cleaver, December 27, 1967 (divorced September 1987). Children: Maceo Eldridge, Jojuyounghi.

Father:

Ernest Eugene Neal

Mother:

Pearl Juette (Johnson) Neal

Spouse:

Eldridge Cleaver

child:

Jojuyounghi Cleaver

child:

Maceo Eldridge Cleaver