Law professor Ruqaiijah Yearby named to committee posts

Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently was named chair of the Student Life and Inclusion Subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee at the School of Law. Yearby’s term will run until 2014. In addition, she became a member of the Institutional Culture Subcommittee on the law school’s Diversity Committee.

Yearby also serves as website editor and an abstract reviewer in the American Public Health Association’s aging and public health section.