Valencia R. Rainey

Valencia R. Rainey serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University while concurrently holding the position of Senior Advisor to the General Counsel at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), where she advises on agency matters and litigates all employment cases. An experienced employment law litigator with extensive courtroom experience, she has handled numerous jury trials across federal and private sectors throughout her career.

Education:

• BA, University of Arkansas
• JD, University of Arkansas

Her research and professional practice centers on employment and labor law with specialized expertise in discrimination litigation, sexual harassment claims, severance agreements, workplace contract negotiations, and systemic workplace issues. Her work spans U.S. District Courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), integrating civil and criminal law perspectives to resolve complex individual and class-action claims.

Scientific Awards:

• 2010 H. Leon Higginbotham Fellowship by the American Arbitration Association

Ms. Rainey contributes to legal education through her faculty role while maintaining active legal practice at the NEA; no formal graduate student advising or major research grants are documented in available sources. As a FINRA arbitrator, she applies her dispute resolution expertise to financial sector conflicts beyond her academic and federal government work.

Her professional activities focus on practical legal application rather than laboratory-based research, with no institutional research teams or dedicated labs associated with her academic position.