Presbyterian College will host “The U.S. Constitution and the Politics of Inclusion” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17. This campus-wide lecture will be held in the Chapman Conference Room in Jacobs Hall.

The speaker is Malissa Burnette, president of the Senior Lawyers Division of the S.C. Bar. Burnette graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1971, and the USC School of Law in 1977. Her extensive resume also includes later admission into the South Carolina Bar in 1977, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in 1978, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1978, and the United States Supreme Court in 1998.

Burnette is also a Certified Federal Court Mediator and an arbitrator. She is the co-author and co-editor of all four editions of Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers, published by the South Carolina Bar in 1999, 2004, 2007, and 2011.

Burnette’s husband Michael G. LeFever and daughter Grant Burnette LeFever are 1969 and 2013 graduates of Presbyterian College.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Dr. Erin McAdams, assistant professor of political science at esmcadams@presby.edu.

Written by Rebecca Rowell, a senior English major, double minor in media studies and women and gender studies from Lugoff, S.C.