• By Henry Miller

Latonia Haney Keith

Latonia Haney Keith currently serves on the executive leadership team of The College of Idaho as Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, overseeing the School of Graduate Studies, the Office of Institutional Ethics & Compliance and the Marketing & Communication Division. Vice President Haney Keith joined The College from Concordia University School of Law where she served most recently as Interim Dean and Associate Dean of Academics. Vice President Haney Keith originally joined the faculty of Concordia Law as the Director of Clinical Education. In this role, she directed Concordia Law’s clinical education program, teaching law students the practice of law through the representation of disadvantaged and underserved populations in housing, criminal, and immigration matters. Prior to joining Concordia Law, Vice President Haney Keith spent nearly seven years running a world-wide pro bono practice at a large law firm based in Chicago. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she was a research assistant to Professor Laurence H. Tribe and Professor Charles Ogletree and an editor of and symposium co-chair for the Harvard Law Review, Vice President Haney Keith clerked for the Honorable Judith Ann Wilson Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In March 2023, Vice President Haney Keith was confirmed by Mayor Lauren McLean as a Boise City Councilmember, representing District 3 through the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. In March 2020, she was confirmed by City Council as a Commissioner of the Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC), the redevelopment and urban renewal agency for Boise, Idaho, and currently serves as its Chair. She has served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law’s Committee on Pro Bono, on the Legal Advisory Council for the Fair Punishment Project and on the Local Rules Committee of the U.S. Courts of the District of Idaho and currently serves as a board member of City Club of Boise. Vice President Haney Keith also regularly conducts trainings on recognizing and reducing implicit biases and has published scholarship on the topic of bias, discrimination and harassment in the legal profession. Additionally, she enjoys engaging in research and dialogue centered on constitutional law, housing and homelessness and a variety of public policy issues. EDUCATION J.D., Harvard Law School, 2003 (cum laude) B.B.A. in Finance, University of Iowa, 1997 (summa cum laude) SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH Redlining & Intergenerational Wealth, 64 Advocate 24 (2021) (co-author). Visible Invisibility: Feedback Bias in the Legal Profession, 23 J. of Gender, Race & Justice 315 (2020) (lead article). The Structural Underpinnings of Access to Justice: Building a Solid Pro Bono Infrastructure, 45 Mitchel Hamline L. Rev. 116 (2019). The Pro Bono Policies Worth Adopting in Every State, Law360 (Oct. 28, 2018) (article within the inaugural edition of Law360’s Access to Justice publication). Cultural Competency in a Post-Model Rule 8.4(g) World, 25 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 1 (2018) (lead article). Poverty, the Great Unequalizer: Improving the Delivery System for Civil Legal Aid, 66 Cath. Univ. L. Rev. 55 (2017). Class Action Settlement Residue and Cy Pres Awards: Emerging Problems and Practical Solutions, 21 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 269 (2014) (co-author). Criticism of Cy Pres Settlements Goes Too Far, The Recorder (Oct. 23, 2014) (co-author). Creative Collaborations: Law Firms & Corporations, Law360 (Jun. 2, 2014) (co-author). 6 Tips for Addressing Cy Pres Awards in Class Actions, Law360 (Apr. 4, 2014) (co-author). The Year Ahead in Pro Bono, LAW360 (Jan. 4, 2014) (co-author). Columnist, AM. Bar Ass’n Before the Bar Blog (2015-2018). Columnist, Above & Beyond, Chicago Lawyer (2011-2015). SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Select Speaking Engagements: The Ethical Implications of Implicit Bias & Cultural Competency, Colorado Public Defender System, 2019 Annual Meeting, Westminster, CO DEI: Dying, Evolving, Illegal?, 2025 City Club of Boise “Harmful to Minors”: Book Bans and Marginalized Youth, 2024 Poverty Law Conference, IndianaUniversity, Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN Constitutional Crises, ClassCrits XIV 2024, Los Angeles, CA Amending the Constitution, 2024 City Club of Boise Stay Ahead of the Curve on DEI Law: The Legal Environment’s Impact on DEI Forecasting, 2023Blue Sky Institute, Boise State University Redlining, Racial Covenants & Intergenerational Wealth, 2023 Poverty Law Conference, Univ. of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA Contextualizing Reproductive Health in Idaho, 2023 City Club of Boise Redlining, Racial Covenants & Intergenerational Wealth, ClassCrits XIII 2022, Houston, TX Systemic Racism in Land Use, University of Idaho College of Law, Real Estate Law and Land Use Club’s 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual) Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced, 8th Theater Sustainment Command of the United States Army, 2021 Women’s History Month Celebration (virtual) Advancing Equity in Practice, Idaho Women Lawyer, 2020 Circuit Training (virtual) Suppressing the Vote Through Partisan & Racial Gerrymandering, Southern University Law Center, 2020 Series on Representative Government – Voting & Beyond (virtual meeting)