Emily Stanfield is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.
Prior to practicing law, Emily was the founding president and CEO of a workforce training program for young adults in Jackson, Mississippi, called the Refill Jackson Initiative. She also worked for almost a decade in international human rights, including at the U.S. Department of State where she developed and managed a global portfolio of human rights and democracy programs that rapidly responded to emergency situations at both individual defender and broader sociopolitical levels.
Emily is currently an adjunct professor in the Child Advocacy Clinic at her alma mater, Mississippi College School of Law, where she guides students who have been appointed as guardians ad litem in various kinds of family law cases.