Professor David C. Simmons has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center for more than 25 years teaching courses in Civil Discovery and Employment Discrimination.  He has also taught for more than 20 years as a Contracts professor in the Charles Hamilton Houston Law School Preparatory Institutes. He was the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights for more than 10 years.

Professor Simmons is a cum laude graduate of the Georgetown Law Center, where he worked on the Georgetown Law Journal’s Criminal Procedure Project and was a member of BLSA.  He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University and attended Haverford College and the Polytechnical Institute of Leningrad (in the former Soviet Union).  He practiced law in both large and small law firms and currently is the principal in a small law firm that specialized on employment discrimination, civil rights, and civil trial work.  Immediately following  graduation from Georgetown Law, Professor Simmons clerked for the Late Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Simmons is a member of the D.C. Court of Appeals Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law.  He has received the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award and the Paul R. Dean Outstanding Alumni Award from Georgetown Law.