Associate Professor of Law, St. Mary's School of Law
Spreng practiced bankruptcy and civil litigation in Owensboro, Kentucky, for nine years, for clients as diverse as a multi-million dollar debt collector, an oil producer, a pharmaceutical research firm, a municipal government, diet drug patients, dependent children, injured workers, union members and countless bankruptcy filers. She is a former clerk to Judges Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and F. A. Little Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Before law school, she served as a U.S. Congressional staff member providing research support for a welfare reform project that formed the foundation for the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.
Prior to joining the faculty, Spreng was Associate Professor of Law and taught Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, and Constitutional Law for nine years at Arizona Summit Law School, where she was a leader in cutting-edge curriculum development, course integration, and innovative classroom teaching methodologies and materials. She has also taught Legal Writing, Research and Analysis and Pretrial Practice at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School.
Spreng regularly publishes and lectures in both the United States and abroad about law school teaching and curriculum, and she also pursues a doctrinal scholarship agenda focusing on religious liberties and food, drug and pharmacy law. She is the author of the book, Abortion and Divorce Law in Ireland, and her articles about a possible Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reorganization are leaders in the field and oft-cited in Congressional testimony. She won Arizona Summit’s 2013 Faculty Scholarship Award.
Spreng has served on the Advisory Board of the Diocese of Phoenix’s John Paul II the Great Center for Theology of the Body and Culture and the Board of Advisors of the Daviess County Public Library, among other civic and charitable institutions.
Clark v. Rameker - Post-Argument SCOTUScast
Jennifer Spreng
On March 24, 2014, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Clark v. Rameker. The...