Kimberly Woolridge

• Biography

   Kimberly Woolridge has held the position of Deputy Executive Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights since August of 2021. She began her nearly 23-year career with the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights in1999, serving as Assistant Commission Counsel, Staff Attorney and ADA Title II Appeals Coordinator. Concurrently, from 2002 to 2006, she served as Special Assistant Attorney General, litigating cases on behalf of MDCR in state circuit courts. In 2018, Woolridge was named the State ADA Coordinator and ADA Compliance Director, a position housed within the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

   

  As head of ADA Compliance for the state, Woolridge provided counsel to the Governor, MDCR Executive Director and executive branch departments on state and federal disability laws; advised state offices on complying with disability statutes; and oversaw the training of ADA Coordinators in every department of state government. In March of 2021, she added oversight of MDCR’s newly created Statewide Training Division to her duties, changing her title to ADA Compliance and Statewide Training Director. In August of 2021, MDCR Director John E. Johnson, Jr. named Woolridge Deputy Executive Director of the Department of Civil Rights. In that position, she oversees the ADA Compliance Division; the Community Engagement Division; the Education Division; the Enforcement Division; the office of Professional Standards; and the Division on Deaf, Blind and Hard of Hearing. Prior to joining MDCR, Woolridge was a staff attorney at the Misdemeanor Defender’s Office for Indigents, Inc. in Detroit, and in 1997, established her own private law practice. Woolridge earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the Michigan State University College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing and Advertising from Wayne State University.

   

• Courses Taught
  Public Service Externship: Colloquium
• Recent courses taught

  Spring-Summer Term 2022

  • LEX8599 - Public Service Externship: Colloquium