Kelly Cahill Timmons has been a faculty member at the Georgia State University College of Law for more than twenty years. For eleven years, she also served as the College’s Associate Dean for Student Affairs. She teaches Torts, Constitutional Tort Litigation, and Employment Law. Her scholarly interests lie in the area of employment discrimination, and her most recent law review articles focus on discrimination because of disability. Professor Timmons chairs the College’s Federal Clerkship Committee and is on the executive committee of the Bleckley Inn of Court.

Professor Timmons graduated first in her class from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and received a full scholarship as a John W. Wade Scholar. Following law school, she clerked for Judge David A. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then practiced employment law with the law firm of Frost & Jacobs (now Frost Brown Todd) in Cincinnati, Ohio.