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SHELLEY D. HAYES, J.D.

Ms. Hayes is a former trial lawyer with extensive background in employment and compliance litigation. She has a long history of representing private plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases and in defending federal agencies in enforcement cases and in federal sector employment discrimination and personnel action cases.By building on that experience, Shelley has developed a recognized expertise in advising organizations on best practices to avoid and manage employee complaints.

From the inception of the AIDS epidemic, Shelley has worked with governments and private entities as they have developed and implemented HIV/AIDS policies. She has conducted “train-the-trainer” workshops for employees and has served as a presenter in continuing medical education courses for physicians and healthcare providers on topics related to HIV/AIDS. Since 1988, Shelley has been a member of the American Bar Association’s AIDS Coordinating Committee, where she has helped to develop a variety of policies and programs, many related to workplace and employment issues. In August 2006, American Bar Association President Karen Mathis appointed Shelley as Chair of that Committee which is responsible for coordinating the HIV/AIDS policies and programs of that 400,000-member organization.

For ten years, Shelley was an Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law and was an invited participant in the American Bar Association’s pipeline diversity conference, Collaborating to Expand the Pipeline: Embracing the Opportunities for Increasing Diversity into the Legal Profession. She also is a former member, and chair, of the District of Columbia Local Business Opportunity Commission, with responsibility for increasing contracting opportunities for local, small and disadvantaged businesses in the city. Also a member of the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Council, Shelley is a Life Member of the National Bar Association.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and The George Washington University Law School, Shelley began her career in the Attorney General’s Honors Program of the U.S. Department of Justice. She has been admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, before most federal appellate courts and before the Supreme Court of the United States.