Rate My Professor Kristin Hickman

Kristin Hickman serves as Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, McKnight Presidential Professor in Law, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She joined the faculty in 2004, holding the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law in 2010-11, Vance Opperman Research Scholar in summer 2020, and Stanley V. Kinyon Tenured Teacher of the Year in 2016-17. Hickman was Donald C. Alexander Visiting Professor in Tax Law at Harvard Law School in 2012-13 and Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2003-04. Prior to academia, she practiced as a certified public accountant, clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Chicago on corporate and international tax matters. In 2018-19, she served as Special Adviser to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. She holds a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in accounting and second major in history from Trinity University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law, earning the Raoul Berger Prize and Lowden-Wigmore Prize.