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Clanitra Stewart Nejdl

Head of Professional Development and Research Services Librarian
Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Clanitra Stewart Nejdl is Head of Professional Development and Research Services Librarian at the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt University. She is also a Lecturer in Law, teaching both 1L and advanced legal research instruction. Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2019, she served for five years as a reference and instructional services librarian and an assistant professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law Library. Clanitra’s scholarship focuses on legal research pedagogy, diversity, equity, and inclusion in legal education, legal information preservation, and access to justice.

Clanitra earned her Juris Doctor degree and a Certificate in Advanced Legal Writing, Research and Drafting from the Mercer University School of Law and her M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina. She is a licensed attorney in South Carolina, where she provided public policy advocacy on behalf of low-income communities in the areas of affordable housing, homelessness, hunger, and community economic development, and in Georgia, where she represented indigent clients in a variety of civil cases.

Clanitra is the 2021 recipient of both the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Emerging Leader Award and the AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award. She is the 2017 recipient of the AALL Minority Leadership Development Award, as well as a 2016 Fellow of the AALL Leadership Academy. Clanitra is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, and the Chicago Association of Law Libraries.

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