Virginia M. Harding has been named associate director of the Center for Real Estate Law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Harding has more than 35 years of experience as a real estate attorney representing developers and handling complex transactions with the Chicago law firm of Gould & Ratner LLP where she will continue as Of Counsel.
She previously served as a program consultant to the Center advising students and developing courses and programs. In addition, Harding has taught JD, LLM and MS real estate courses as an adjunct professor.
As associate director of the Center, Harding will focus on student recruiting and advising, organizing Center programs and conferences and matters related to curriculum.
“Virginia has played an integral role in the Center for Real Estate for many years, first as a member of our advisory board, then as an adjunct professor and program consultant, advising on the content of our curriculum,” said Professor Celeste Hammond, director of the Center. “We are thrilled that she is expanding her role with the Center as Virginia keenly understands the real estate industry and the practice that our Center emphasizes.”
Harding received a JD from The University of Chicago Law School, an MS in communications from Northwestern University and a BA in political science from the University of Illinois.
The John Marshall Law School, founded in 1899, is an independent law school located in the heart of Chicago’s legal, financial and commercial districts. Since 1995, the Center for Real Estate Law has played an important role in expanding opportunities for law students, attorneys and members of the real estate industry to obtain an in-depth education in real estate law and practice from a transactional perspective.
