Skip Navigation

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Name:Steven L. Willborn
Title:Dean and Richard C. and Catherine Stuart Schmoker Professor of Law
Address:103E LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-2161
E-Mail:swillborn1@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Education Law
  • Employment Law
  • Discrimination Law
  • Labor Law
  • Pensions and Employee Benefits Law

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1979
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1982
  • Professor of Law, 1985
  • Richard C. & Catherine Stuart Schmoker, Professor of Law, since 1999
  • Dean, since 2001

Books

  • Employment Law: Cases and Materials, 4th ed. (with Schwab, Burton and Lester) 
  • Statistics of Discrimination: Using Statistical Evidence in Discrimination Cases (with Paetzold)
  • A Secretary and a Cook: Challenging Women's Wages in the Courts of the United States and Great Britain
  • A Comparable Worth Primer
  • Women's Wages: Stability and Change in Six Industrialized Countries (Editor)

Articles

  • Consenting Employees: Workplace Privacy and the Role of Consent, 66 Louisiana L. Rev. 975 (2006)
  • The Story of Hazelwood: Employment Discrimination by the Numbers, in Employment Discrimination Stories (Foundation Press, 2006) (with Schwab)
  • Onward and Upward: The Next Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Labor Law Scholarship, 25 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 183 (2005)
  • Workers in Troubled Firms: When Are (Should) They Be Protected, 7 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 35 (2004)
  • Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace, 44 William & Mary Law Review 1197 (2003) (with Schwab)
  • Regulating Pensions in Europe and the United States, 5 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 327 (2001)
  • Taking Discrimination Seriously: Oncale and the Fate of Exceptionalism in Sexual Harassment Law, 7 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 677 (1999)

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, 1976, Order of the Coif, University of Wisconsin Law School
  • M.S., Counseling, 1976, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.A., magna cum laude, Philosophy, 1974, Northland College

Research

  • Education Law
  • Employment Law
  • Discrimination Law
  • Pensions and Employee Benefits Law
  • Labor Law

Professor Willborn joined the faculty in 1979. He received his B.A. degree in 1974 from Northland College and his M.S. and J.D. (cum laude, Order of the Coif) degrees in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin. While in law school, he served as a member and editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. Professor Willborn was in private practice from 1976 to 1979. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (1985-86); a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra (1988), the University of Toronto (1991), and Lincoln College, Oxford University (1993); and a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School (1992). Professor Willborn has been licensed to practice law in Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin and to make cheese in Wisconsin. He teaches Employment Law, Labor Law, Legal Control of Discrimination, and Pension & Employee Benefits Law.

Name:Glenda J. Pierce
Title:Associate Dean
Address:103B LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-2161
E-Mail:gpierce1@unl.edu
 
 

Ms. Pierce joined the College of Law in 1990, and is the Associate Dean, responsible for student services and administration. She received her B.A. degree in English (with distinction) in 1973 from the University of Nebraska and her J.D. degree (with high distinction, Order of the Coif) in 1982 from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While a student at the College of Law, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Nebraska Law Review.

Ms. Pierce is active in the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Lincoln Bar Association. She is a past Chair of the State Bar House of Delegates and Judiciary Committee. She is past president of the Lincoln Bar Association and a Fellow of the Nebraska State Bar Foundation. She is past chair of the Law-Related Education Committee and the Women and the Law Section of the state bar. She currently serves on the state bar annual meeting committe and Barristeis Ball committee.

She was in private practice in Omaha from 1982-1990, concentrating in Civil Litigation. In addition to serving as Associate Dean, Ms. Pierce teaches Trial Advocacy and the voluntary first-year skills class.

Ms. Pierce is married to Jeff Kirkpatrick, and they have two children, Ryan, and Anthony.

Name:Tasha A. Everman
Title:Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services
Address:103 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-5130
E-Mail:teverman2@unl.edu
 
 

Ms. Everman joined the College of Law in 2005 as the Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services. She received her B.A. degree in English from Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1988 and her J.D. degree (with distinction) in 2002 from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While at the College of Law, she was president of the Woman's Law Caucus, and was named the College of Law's "Outstanding Woman Law Graduate" by the National Association of Woman Lawyers. Following law school, Ms. Everman clerked for Justice Kenneth Stephan of the Nebraska Supreme Court and Judge Frankie Moore of the Nebraska Court of Appeals.

Ms. Everman brings to her position as Director of Career Services almost a decade of experience working with students both in the United States and abroad. She lives in Lincoln with her husband Brian and her two children, Maggie and Charlie. She is actively involved with the Lincoln Literacy Council as a member of the board of directors and is acting Treasurer of the Women and The Law section of the Nebraska State Bar Association.

Name:Sarah A. Gloden
Title:Assistant Dean of Admissions and Director of Communications
Address:103 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1526
E-Mail:sgloden2@unl.edu
 
 

Sarah Gloden was named Assistant Dean of Admissions and Director of Communications of the College of Law in January, 2007. She received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of South Dakota, where she was a Neuharth Scholar.

While in law school, she held leadership positions in the Native American Law Students Association and the American Bar Association's Law Student Division. She was also the research assistant to the South Dakota Board of Regents' General Counsel.

Previously, she worked for the Freedom Forum and then as the attorney for Ho-Chunk, Inc., an economic development corporation wholly-owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Most recently, she worked at the University of South Dakota and again for the Freedom Forum where she was the Assistant Dean of the College of Fine Arts, taught in the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism and advised the student newspaper.

In addition to her responsibilities at the College of Law, she regularly teaches an undergraduate writing course for the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. She also teaches an undergraduate course at the Law College for students in the UNL Honors Program who are interested in attending law school.

Originally from Omaha, Dean Gloden is happy to be calling Nebraska home again. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Nebraska State Bar.

Name:Angie Hohensee
Title:Director of Development
Address:7B LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-8265
E-Mail:ahohensee@nufoundation.org
 
 

Angie is the Director of Development for the College of Law in conjunction with the University of Nebraska Foundation.

She serves as a resource through which you can explore your philanthropic options, organize your contributions effectively and enable you to donate your resources of time or money to that which gives the most impact and personal satisfaction.

Angie received her degree in Journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1991. She then held a position as an Advertising Representative for the Kansas City Star before moving back to Nebraska to become the Director of Marketing for Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. She was in private banking at Union Bank before joining the College of Law.

She is married with two children.

She is committed to being a trustworthy steward of your charitable gifts and will help you to advance your desires to sustain the College of Law as a leader in legal education.