Julie Sandine
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
J.D. Wake Forest University
M.A., B.A., University of Memphis
Room 152D
Phone: (615) 343-5807
Fax: (615) 343-1266
Email: julie.sandine@vanderbilt.edu
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Julie Sandine became the law school’s first Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the Law School in 2002. Before taking on this position, she served as one of the law school's legal writing faculty and was also an associate with the Nashville law firm of Dodson, Parker, Dinkens & Behm, where she focused on probate, elder law and juvenile law. In her law practice, Dean Sandine represented birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees as amici in the landmark case that resulted in the opening of Tennessee adoption records to adopted individuals. Her article about the case, “Tennessee’s Adoption Law: Balancing the Interests of the Adoption Triad,” was published in 39 Family Courts Review 1, 58 (2001). Dean Sandine has also worked with the ACLU as local counsel in appellate matters and continues to represent pro bono clients in both juvenile and probate court. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the Lawyers' Association for Women. From 1993 to 1995, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Higgins, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before attending law school, Dean Sandine worked in the areas of women’s health and crisis intervention. Her experience includes serving as outreach coordinator for Rape Response in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as a behavioral science researcher for the University of Connecticut Health Center, and as Director of Counseling and then Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Reproductive Health.
Publications
“Tennessee’s Adoption Law: Balancing the Interests of the Adoption Triad,” 39 Family Courts Review 1, 58 (2001).
"The Wavering Line in Invisible Ink: Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress in North Carolina," 26 Wake Forest Law Review 809 (1991).
