Shaakirrah Sanders
Shaakirrah Sanders is the first African-American to earn the rank of full professor at the University of Idaho and its College of Law. She teaches, writes, and comments on U.S. constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the First Amendment. She is a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School in the spring of 2022. Shaakirrah serves as one of three general counsels for the ACLU National Board, upon which she is the representative for Idaho. She also chairs the Idaho State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Shaakirrah has appeared in a number of national news publications and broadcasts, including New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, BuzzFeed, Glamour Magazine, YahooNews!, and All Things Considered. She also regularly appears on local television and public radio news broadcasts in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. She is also a contributor to SCOTUSblog. Shaakirrah earned a B.S. in Psychology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She currently serves on Trinity’s Board of Fellows. She attended Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she was a member of its law review and was named a William Crowe Scholar. Shaakirrah served as a judicial law clerk in both the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith, current Chief Circuit Judge.
