Heather Skeeles-Shiner Professor of Practice

Phone: 540-458-8219

Email: hskeeles-shiner@wlu.edu

Office: 444 Lewis Hall 

Education

BS, Ohio University

JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law

About

Heather Skeeles-Shiner became a full-time legal writing professor in 2024, following a year as a visiting faculty member. Previously, Professor Skeeles-Shiner was a staff attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at Washington and Lee University. In addition, she was an assistant city attorney for the City of Alexandria, an assistant attorney general in the Civil Litigation Division for the District of Columbia, and Senior Counsel in the General Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department. She began her legal career as an associate for Arnold & Porter in New York following a federal clerkship for Judge Norman K. Moon in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Professor Skeeles-Shiner is a 2004 graduate of W&L Law.