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Matthew Winston
Frederick C. Dawkins, an Atlanta attorney, has been named associate director for legal affairs at the university. Dawkins, who specializes in employment law, joined the legal affairs staff on  Aug. 31.
“I am extremely pleased that Mr. Dawkins accepted our offer to serve the University of Georgia in this important position,” says Jere W. Morehead, acting executive director for legal affairs. “He brings six years of employment litigation experience with him and also has a diverse background in alternative dispute resolution and mediation as well. I look forward to working with him in our ongoing efforts to provide the university community with outstanding legal services.”
Dawkins, a 1992 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law, has been employed as an associate attorney with two prestigious Atlanta law firms, Alston and Bird and also Holland and Knight. He also has served as an in-house counsel for Hospital Occupational Medicine. He has lectured on employment law issues before the State Bar of Georgia and human resource professionals, and has written and edited articles for firm newsletters on employment law matters. As a law student at the University of Michigan, he was the recipient of the Earl Warren Scholarship and was active in the Black Law Students Alliance. Dawkins received his bachelor of arts degree in 1989 from Florida State University.
Morehead says that Dawkins’s appointment completes the immediate staffing needs for the Office of Legal Affairs following its reorganization over the past several months.
President Michael F. Adams has extended Morehead’s appointment as acting executive director of legal affairs through June. He has also asked Carol Winthrop, assistant vice president for academic affairs, to administer the consolidated grievance process as acting grievance coordinator until that responsibility has been moved to legal affairs. At that time, the alternative dispute resolution program will be incorporated within the grievance process.
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