Nancy B. Rapoport is the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV.
After receiving her BA, summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her JD from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991. She started her academic career at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1991 and later became a full professor and the college’s associate dean of student affairs.