Paige L. Snelgro serves as Assistant Dean of Legal Skills at Florida A&M University College of Law, where she works with faculty and academic support programs to strengthen students’ legal analysis, writing, and professional skills. A proud FAMU Law alumna, she brings experience as a practicing attorney and legal educator to preparing future lawyers for the demands professional practice.

Before returning to FAMU in this leadership role, Dean Snelgro served as a Senior Lecturer and Senior Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Her teaching experience includes legal research and writing, appellate advocacy, pretrial practice, trial practice, and family law. She previously served FAMU students through legal writing instruction, academic advising, analytical skills instruction, and bar preparation coaching. Before entering academia, she practiced primarily in family law, probate, and estate planning.

Dean Snelgro’s teaching and scholarly interests explore how students develop the habits, confidence, and analytical skills necessary to become effective lawyers. Her work examines the connections among learning science, performance, and legal education. She emphasizes purposeful practice, meaningful feedback, and opportunities for students to apply their knowledge to realistic legal problems.

Dean Snelgro earned her Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Florida A&M University College of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Florida A&M University Law Review.