Nancy J. King is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University, College of Business in Corvallis Oregon, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Business Law.   She is also Of Counsel with the law firm of Bullard, Smith Jernstedt and Harnish, in Portland, Oregon.

Ms. King was a Visiting Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, where she taught labor and employment law courses on a full-time basis for academic year 1999-2000.  Until May 2000, Ms. King was a shareholder with the firm of Bullard Smith Jernstedt & Harnish, P.C. Portland, Oregon where she concentrated her practice in areas of disability discrimination and accommodation, sexual harassment, family medical leave, and labor and employment litigation.

Ms. King was formerly a partner with Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in Portland, Oregon and was an Associate General Counsel for Boise Cascade Corporation for five years prior to entering private practice.  She received a Bachelor of Business Administration, with honors, from the University of Oregon in 1979.  She received a Master of Business in 1984 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1986, summa cum laude, from Gonzaga University, where she served as Articles Editor on the Gonzaga Law Review and was a Thomas More Scholar.

Ms. King is admitted to practice law in Oregon, Washington and Idaho (inactive in Idaho).  She is a member of the American Bar Association, Labor Section, EEO Committee and the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.  Ms. King is the author of numerous professional and academic articles.  Her most recent article is entitled “The Family and Medical Leave Act: An Ethical Model for Human Resource Policies and Decisions” and is published in Volume 83, No.2 Marquette Law Review 321 (Winter 1999).