Bio of Dawn V. Martin, Esquire
Dawn V. Martin has more than thirty years of legal experience, all in civil rights, public service,
teaching law and/or policy development. Ms. Martin has developed national policy in the areas
of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) Law and has published authoritative works on this
subject. See Publications.
Ms. Martin has served as: a trial attorney with the United States Department
of Justice, Civil Rights Division (Honors Program); a trial attorney with the
New York State Office of the Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau; a trial
attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York, Civil Division (Bronx Office);
Assistant General Counsel with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department; and a
Senior Attorney-Advisor and Special Assistant to Commissioner Tucker at the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and served in a
temporary appointment with United States Department of Agriculture as Acting
Deputy General Counsel for Civil Rights.
Ms. Martin has also been a law professor, at both Howard University and Cleveland State University,
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, teaching Equal Employment Law, Torts, Evidence and Race as a
Factor in American Law. Ms. Martin set legal precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, with her own personal litigation against Howard University. See discussion of Martin v.
Howard University and Alice Gresham Bullock, under SexandWorkplaceViolence
and MartinvHowardU. See also Chief Judge Hogan's precedent-setting decision
in Martin v. Howard University, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19516,
81 FEP Cases 964 (BNA), 15 IER Cases 1587 (D.D.C. 1999).
Ms. Martin has special expertise in EEO and other matters related to police and
fire departments, as indicated by her article, "911: How Will Police
and Fire Departments Respond to Public Safety Needs and the Americans with
Disabilities Act?" Ms. Martin dedicated her article, to the memory of her father,
Alfonzo Q. Martin, a former New York City police officer and firefighter. Ms.
Martin has been employed by, or served as a consultant for, several police
departments and/or law enforcement agencies.
Education. Ms. Martin graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University (1978) and New York
University School of Law (1981).
Philosophy of Law Practice.
There had to be a Plessy v. Fergurson before there could be a Brown v. The Board of Education.
Somebody had to file and lose General Electric v. Gilbert for Congress to amend Title VII to include
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Americans working abroad for American companies had to lose
Aramco v. Boursalan for Congress to pass The 1991 Civil Rights Act to assert Title VII jurisdiction
over them. There had to be a Ledbetter v. Goodyear for Congress to propose the Lilly Ledbetter Act.
Ms. Martin said:
"Although we always want to win our cases, the act of standing up for what is
right and for bringing attention to an important issue is necessary for change. I often
have to remind myself that Jesus did not win in the courts -- but he won in the
press! Sometimes you just have to stand up -- win or lose -- you stand up. It is the
act itself that makes you a winner -- in the true sense of the word. If no one stands
up against wrongdoing by powerful institutions, there will never be real change."
For a lighter and more personal side of Ms. Martin's concept of her legal career, see Maryland Daily
Record article on New Year's Resolutions of local attorneys, at www.findarticles.
com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_200412/ai_n10064964
Bar Membership. Ms. Martin is a member of the Bar in the following jurisdictions:
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Bar of the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Bar of the State of New York
Ms. Martin has also practiced in federal and local jurisdictions in Virginia, partnered with Virginia
attorneys.
Ms. Martin is featured in Sky Radio's "Salute to Women in Leadership,"
as acknowledged in Her interview can be heard on American Airlines
from December 16, 2008 through January 31, 2009, or at Sky Radio's
website,
http://www.skyradionet.com/americanbiz.cfm. See also Time Magazine,
Global Edition, December 15, 2008.
Ms. Martin is also recognized as one of "America's Premier Lawyers" on ABC News
Radio's, "The Law Business Insider."Hear Radio Interview at
http://behindtheheadlines.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174:hlln-sorkin-
dawn&catid=44:apl&Itemid=119
Family. Throughout most of her career, Ms. Martin was a single mother, raising a daughter, Danielle
Evans. Daniele has already made a name for herself, in her own right. She is a published author and a
Professor at American University, in Washington, D.C., teaching fiction writing. Wikipedia lists her as
an "American writer." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_American_Short_Stories_2008 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Evans
Prof. Evans is a 2004 graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University. She received her Masters in
Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006. From August
2006 through May 2007, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught
creative writing and from 2008 through May of 2009, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the
University of Missouri.
Prof. Evans uses activism and her writing talent to foster racial equality and understanding, as
exhibited by her column, Re-Eduction, which ran bi-weekly in the Columbia University Newspaper,
The Spectator while she was a college student.
Dawn V. Martin has more than thirty years of legal experience, all in civil rights, public service,
teaching law and/or policy development. Ms. Martin has developed national policy in the areas
of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) Law and has published authoritative works on this
subject. See Publications.
Ms. Martin has served as: a trial attorney with the United States Department
of Justice, Civil Rights Division (Honors Program); a trial attorney with the
New York State Office of the Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau; a trial
attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York, Civil Division (Bronx Office);
Assistant General Counsel with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department; and a
Senior Attorney-Advisor and Special Assistant to Commissioner Tucker at the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and served in a
temporary appointment with United States Department of Agriculture as Acting
Deputy General Counsel for Civil Rights.
Ms. Martin has also been a law professor, at both Howard University and Cleveland State University,
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, teaching Equal Employment Law, Torts, Evidence and Race as a
Factor in American Law. Ms. Martin set legal precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, with her own personal litigation against Howard University. See discussion of Martin v.
Howard University and Alice Gresham Bullock, under SexandWorkplaceViolence
and MartinvHowardU. See also Chief Judge Hogan's precedent-setting decision
in Martin v. Howard University, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19516,
81 FEP Cases 964 (BNA), 15 IER Cases 1587 (D.D.C. 1999).
Ms. Martin has special expertise in EEO and other matters related to police and
fire departments, as indicated by her article, "911: How Will Police
and Fire Departments Respond to Public Safety Needs and the Americans with
Disabilities Act?" Ms. Martin dedicated her article, to the memory of her father,
Alfonzo Q. Martin, a former New York City police officer and firefighter. Ms.
Martin has been employed by, or served as a consultant for, several police
departments and/or law enforcement agencies.
Education. Ms. Martin graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University (1978) and New York
University School of Law (1981).
Philosophy of Law Practice.
There had to be a Plessy v. Fergurson before there could be a Brown v. The Board of Education.
Somebody had to file and lose General Electric v. Gilbert for Congress to amend Title VII to include
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Americans working abroad for American companies had to lose
Aramco v. Boursalan for Congress to pass The 1991 Civil Rights Act to assert Title VII jurisdiction
over them. There had to be a Ledbetter v. Goodyear for Congress to propose the Lilly Ledbetter Act.
Ms. Martin said:
"Although we always want to win our cases, the act of standing up for what is
right and for bringing attention to an important issue is necessary for change. I often
have to remind myself that Jesus did not win in the courts -- but he won in the
press! Sometimes you just have to stand up -- win or lose -- you stand up. It is the
act itself that makes you a winner -- in the true sense of the word. If no one stands
up against wrongdoing by powerful institutions, there will never be real change."
For a lighter and more personal side of Ms. Martin's concept of her legal career, see Maryland Daily
Record article on New Year's Resolutions of local attorneys, at www.findarticles.
com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_200412/ai_n10064964
Bar Membership. Ms. Martin is a member of the Bar in the following jurisdictions:
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Bar of the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Bar of the State of New York
Ms. Martin has also practiced in federal and local jurisdictions in Virginia, partnered with Virginia
attorneys.
Ms. Martin is featured in Sky Radio's "Salute to Women in Leadership,"
as acknowledged in Her interview can be heard on American Airlines
from December 16, 2008 through January 31, 2009, or at Sky Radio's
website,
http://www.skyradionet.com/americanbiz.cfm. See also Time Magazine,
Global Edition, December 15, 2008.
Ms. Martin is also recognized as one of "America's Premier Lawyers" on ABC News
Radio's, "The Law Business Insider."Hear Radio Interview at
http://behindtheheadlines.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174:hlln-sorkin-
dawn&catid=44:apl&Itemid=119
Family. Throughout most of her career, Ms. Martin was a single mother, raising a daughter, Danielle
Evans. Daniele has already made a name for herself, in her own right. She is a published author and a
Professor at American University, in Washington, D.C., teaching fiction writing. Wikipedia lists her as
an "American writer." (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_American_Short_Stories_2008 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Evans
Prof. Evans is a 2004 graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University. She received her Masters in
Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006. From August
2006 through May 2007, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught
creative writing and from 2008 through May of 2009, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the
University of Missouri.
Prof. Evans uses activism and her writing talent to foster racial equality and understanding, as
exhibited by her column, Re-Eduction, which ran bi-weekly in the Columbia University Newspaper,
The Spectator while she was a college student.
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| Alfonzo Q. Martin 1929-1985 |
Prof. Evans' short story collection, "Before You Suffocate Your own
Fool Self," has been in all major bookstores in September of 2010.
See e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100606851.html; http://www.
nationalbook.org/5under35.html; http://www.pgcmls.
info/MeetAuthor1; http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/evans.cfm.
See reviews at http://www.facebook.com/danielle.v.evans#!
/pages/Before-You-Suffocate-Your-Own-Fool-Self/119136904799327?
ref=mf. See also http://pandeliterary.com/authors/danielle-evans/. Two
of the stories in the collection, "Virgins" and “Someone Ought to Tell
her There’s No Place to Go” were included in "Best American Short
Stories," 2008 and 2010, respectively. The Summer 2010 issue of Ms.
Magazine contains a condensed version of one of the stories in the
collection, "Snakes," about an inter-racial girl's life-changing summer
with her White grandmother and White cousin that the grandmother
favored. See cover at http://www.msmagazine.
com/summer2010/index.asp. Prof. Evans' stories have also appeared
in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Callaloo, Phoebe (George
Mason University's Literary Magazine), "Purple" in L Magazine.
Fool Self," has been in all major bookstores in September of 2010.
See e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100606851.html; http://www.
nationalbook.org/5under35.html; http://www.pgcmls.
info/MeetAuthor1; http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/evans.cfm.
See reviews at http://www.facebook.com/danielle.v.evans#!
/pages/Before-You-Suffocate-Your-Own-Fool-Self/119136904799327?
ref=mf. See also http://pandeliterary.com/authors/danielle-evans/. Two
of the stories in the collection, "Virgins" and “Someone Ought to Tell
her There’s No Place to Go” were included in "Best American Short
Stories," 2008 and 2010, respectively. The Summer 2010 issue of Ms.
Magazine contains a condensed version of one of the stories in the
collection, "Snakes," about an inter-racial girl's life-changing summer
with her White grandmother and White cousin that the grandmother
favored. See cover at http://www.msmagazine.
com/summer2010/index.asp. Prof. Evans' stories have also appeared
in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Callaloo, Phoebe (George
Mason University's Literary Magazine), "Purple" in L Magazine.