Nancy L. Zisk is a graduate of Duke University, with a B.A. in English and
Psychology, and an honors graduate of Duke University Law School.
Zisk, Professor of Law at the Charleston School of Law, joined the school in 2004, and
teaches torts, and employment discrimination law, and Equitable Remedies. In 2006, she
was named "professor of the year" by students and associate dean for academic
affairs by the school. From 2006 through May 2008, she served as Associate Dean of
Academic Affairs.
Prior to coming to Charleston, Zisk was an adjunct professor of law at the Washington
College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., where she taught Remedies.
She also has been in private practice, with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and
Ross, Dixon & Bell, both in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in employment and
complex insurance coverage litigation, and most recently as a sole practitioner in
Fairfax County, Virginia.
