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Law Panel
This event is designed to support pre-law students. A panel of lawyers and a law school admission professional will share insights on career paths within the legal profession and strategies for applying to law school. The event will be held from 4-5:15pm EST in Room 191 of the Gatton B&E Building on campus or via Zoom. All University of Kentucky students are welcome to attend.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Kayla Powell at kayla.powell@uky.edu.
Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/9XNf6fYtQgOQYnUz8SyJrw
Keith Douglas, EdD
Keith Douglas joined the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law as an Admissions Counselor in September 2025. Prior to joining the College of Law, he worked at the University of Cincinnati as a Senior Transfer Advisor and has worked in higher education for the past ten years. Keith was born and raised here in Lexington, Ky. He received his BS in Criminal Justice and Safety from Eastern Kentucky University in 2012 and received his MA in Student Personnel Services in 2015. In 2024, he received his Doctorate of Education in Organizational Leadership from Abilene Christian University.
Kennadi Spraggs, JD
Kennadi Spraggs is an associate attorney at EMWN Law, where she focuses her practice on transactional law, estate planning and administration, and real estate matters. She joined the firm in April 2025 and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in October 2025. Originally from Marshall County, Kentucky, Kennadi has lived in Lexington for the past seven years. She is a proud University of Kentucky alumna, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, magna cum laude, in 2022. She went on to earn her Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law in May 2025, where she received the Core-Law Diversity/Merit Scholarship. During law school, Kennadi held leadership roles including Vice President of the Women’s Law Caucus and the Law Wellness Initiative, and Social Chair of the Student Bar Association. She also gained experience working in state and local government, assisting with legal research, legislation, and policy initiatives.
Stephanie Quiring, J.D., Ph.D
Stephanie Quiring, J.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Quiring has spent over 15 years as advocate, educator, and attorney across various stages of the criminal legal system. More specifically, working and advocating in spaces where a person experiencing mental health crisis intersects with the criminal legal system. Her legal practice focused on criminal defense with a subspecialty in advocating for clients where mental health issues were involved. Her dissertation, Living with serious mental illness, police encounters, and relationships of power: A critical phenomenological study, was published in 2021. Dr. Quiring joined the University of Kentucky College of Social Work as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in August 2025. Before joining the UK team, she was on faculty at Indiana University and served as the Research Director for the NAMI Indiana Technical Assistance Center for Mental Health and Justice. As part of her partnership with the NAMI Indiana, the focus has been on the further development of state-level infrastructure for community-based mental health and substance use crisis response, to include providing Sequential Intercept Model mapping across Indiana. Continuing her state-level focus, Dr. Quiring recently served as the principal investigator on the Investing in Recovery Communities: A Statewide Social Return on Investment Analysis. This research, with the support of the Indiana Division of Mental Health & Addictions, centered the lived experiences of people navigating recovery and the growing recovery communities supporting multiple paths of recovery for Hoosiers. She is excited to be working on a similar project for the state of Ohio in 2026.
Dr. Quiring earned her Juris Doctorate from the Howard University School of Law and her PhD from Indiana University School of Social Work. As a translational scholar, her current areas of research, writing, and teaching include: community-based mental health crisis response, recovery service organizations, peer support across the care continuum, abolitionist feminist praxis, critical phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis, collective wellness, mental health law & policy, Crisis Intervention Teams, police, criminal legal system, 4th and 5th amendment issues, state violence, power relationships, death penalty.
Jenny Scott, J.D.
Jenny Scott graduated from Centre College in 1990 and from the UK College of Law in 1993. She began her career as a law clerk for Honorable Judge Lewis Paisley and thereafter spent several years prosecuting in Lexington. In 1998, she opened her own law practice, focusing on criminal and family law. In addition to her divorce and custody work, Jenny has also developed an extensive family formation practice (adoption and surrogacy) and is a member of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. Jenny’s considerable experience in contested adoptions take her across the state to aid families in creating forever bonds. Jenny has been married to her grade-school sweetheart for over 30 years, with two adult daughters. Her practice is located in the Hamburg area of Lexington and she is supported by a wonderful associate and staff.