Jennifer Free has research interests in disability rights in the Gilded Age. In addition, she studies the development of protective labor legislation in the twentieth-century. Jennifer received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Northern Colorado in 2001. In 2006, she received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo College of Law, graduating second in her class. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in November of 2006. Jennifer is a member of the American Bar Association.
During law school, Jennifer received Highest Ranking Student awards in Evidence, Employment Discrimination, Trusts and Estates, Administrative Law, Employment Law, Family Law, and Labor Law. Jennifer was on the Dean’s List and received two academic merit scholarships. In addition, she received the Ohio State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Law Student Achievement Award in 2006. Also in 2006, she was awarded the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Scholarship Award.
Jennifer was the Assistant Executive Editor for the University of Toledo Law Review. Her Note and Comment, Equal Educational Opportunities and the Visually Impaired Student Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 37 U. Tol. L. Rev. 203 (2005), was nominated for the Scribe’s Award–an award given by the National Conference of Law Reviews. Her Comment argued that Congress intended for the courts to substantively interpret the statutory mandate of a “free appropriate public education” as granting disabled students an equal opportunity to learn.
Jennifer moved to Toledo from Boulder, Colorado in 2002.
Contact Information:
Office: Tucker Hall 0152
Phone: 419-530-6129
Email: jennifer.free@utoledo.edu