Jessica Millward
Jessica Millward
Assistant Professor of Law
Menard 13
College of Law
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 2321
Moscow, ID 83844-2321
- LL.M., Georgetown Law
- J.D., American University Washington College of Law
- B.A., Trinity College
Courses
- Poverty Law
Jessica (Jess) Millward joined the University of Idaho College of Law’s faculty in 2023 as the Director of the Tribal Law Clinic and Assistant Professor of Law. She earned her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law and her B.A. in English and Political Science from Trinity College, Hartford.
Professor Millward was selected as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow and worked at Montana Legal Services Association, serving for two years. During that time, she served clients through a Medical-Legal Partnership and worked on public benefits, housing, and other matters. After her term as an AmeriCorps Legal Fellow ended, she transitioned to a staff attorney position at Montana Legal Services, practicing in the area of public benefits and reinvigorating the firm’s Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker program. In her last year at Montana Legal Services, she served as an interim managing attorney.
In 2017, she joined Georgetown University Law Center’s Health Justice Alliance, a Medical-Legal Partnership, as a Clinical Teaching Fellow. In 2019, she joined American University, Washington College of Law as a Practitioner-in-Residence, teaching and supervising student attorneys in the Civil Advocacy Clinic and teaching Poverty Law and Elder Law.
Professor Millward’s research interests include clinical pedagogy, health law, poverty law, rurality, tribal law and administrative law.
At Idaho, Professor Millward teaches the Tribal Law Clinic, Poverty Law, and Rural Law.