Elizabeth Donovan

Elizabeth M. Donovan is the Director of Community Development Law Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law. The courses Professor Donovan teaches include Human Trafficking, Community-Based Legal Services, Women's Immigrant Rights Law Clinic, Mediation Clinic, Advanced Clinical Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Client Representation, and Mediation. Her clinical work focuses on human trafficking victims and immigrant victims of other crimes, as well as mediating disputes.

Professor Donovan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany, a Master of Arts from the University of Michigan, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law. She is a member of the Collier County Coalition Against Human Trafficking, Lee County Human Trafficking Task Force, and the Florida Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on Human Trafficking Awareness.

Before joining Ave Maria School of Law in 2000, Professor Donovan practiced law at the Detroit office of Dykema Gossett for eight years, concentrating on litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and immigration. She began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Rosselle Pekelis of the Washington State Court of Appeals.