Adams and Reese Partner Elizabeth Lee Maron, a leading education and labor and employment attorney in our Mississippi office, has been appointed the new School Board Attorney for Forest Municipal School District. Maron’s appointment follows the retirement of FMSD School Board Attorney Thomas D. Lee, who served in the leadership role for 52 years.
FMSD includes Forest Elementary School, Hawkins Middle School, and Forest High School, all located in Forest, Mississippi. The district consists of more than 1,500 students.
At Adams and Reese, Maron represents and advises clients in all areas of education law and employment law. Within Maron’s education practice, she works with education entities throughout Mississippi and the Southeast, including school districts, community colleges, and universities. She counsels education entities on how to follow state and federal laws.
Maron has advised education entities on such matters as Title IX compliance, student discipline, employee and student First Amendment issues, contracts, responding to OCR and EEOC complaints, counseling governing boards, policy development, public bidding issues, and conducting investigations into employee and student complaints of harassment, discrimination, and bullying. She has experience as a hearing officer for school employee disciplinary hearings and has testified in trial regarding investigations she conducted.
Maron recently spoke at the 2024 Mississippi Association of School Superintendents/Alliance Summer Convention. This is the highest attended education conference in the state with more than 1,600 administrators.
The Adams and Reese Education Team advises more than 100 schools, colleges, and universities across the law firm’s footprint in 10 states, 20 offices, and DC. Adams and Reese attorneys and advisors address the full range of issues facing these institutions, including student privacy and discipline concerns, operations, administration and staff employment issues, Title IX and Title VII compliance, athletics, student/teacher issues, handbooks and policies, special education, real estate, legislative monitoring, etc.
Adams and Reese education law attorneys hold leadership positions in national, state, and local organizations in the education field, speak on issues of school administration and education law to audiences throughout the United States, and serve in leadership roles for school districts, and nonprofit associations supporting charter schools and higher education institutions.