Emily Stanfield is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.

Prior to practicing law, Emily founded and served as the president and CEO of a workforce training program for young adults in Jackson, Mississippi, called the Refill Jackson Initiative. She also worked at the U.S. Department of State as a political appointee in the Obama administration. Through this appointment, she developed and managed a global portfolio of human rights and democracy programs that rapidly responded to emergency situations at both individual defender and broader sociopolitical levels. She also represented the U.S. government and its interests at various multilateral fora, including the United Nations, the Human Rights Council, and the Community of Democracies.

Emily graduated summa cum laude from Mississippi College School of Law, where she was a staff writer for the Mississippi College Law Review. She also earned an M.S. in nonprofit management from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy and a B.A. in English (magna cum laude with honors) from Millsaps College.

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 2024

Education

• Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., 2024, summa cum laude; Staff Writer, Mississippi College Law Review; Teaching Assistant, Contracts I & II and Civil Procedure I & II; Writing Fellow, Legal Analysis & Communication I, II, & III; Health Law Transactional Competition Team; Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Team
• Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, M.S., Nonprofit Management, 2008
• Millsaps College, B.A., English, 2005, magna cum laude, with honors