E. Ann Puckett

E. Ann Puckett, former professor and director of the University of Georgia School of Law Alexander Campbell King Law Library retired July 2010 after nearly 16 years of service at the law school.

Puckett joined the UGA law faculty in 1994. In addition to her expertise in library management, she also offered a seminar to students on law and disability.

She maintained a national survey of law school computing services staffing (in which 159 law schools participated) and updated the results on the Web monthly. She published "Space and Cyberspace in Large Law Libraries" in Trends in Law Library Management and Technology (1996). In addition, she is the author of Uniform Commercial Code: Confidential Drafts (with Elizabeth S. Kelly, 10v., 1995), which was selected in 2006 to be included in Hein Online.

A nationally recognized leader in law library management, Puckett has served as an executive board member of the American Association of Law Libraries. She has also made numerous presentations on library management, legal research methodology, trends in research technology, and law and disability. In 2009, Puckett was named the recipient of the most prestigious award presented by the AALL, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, which is given annually by the association in recognition of outstanding, extended and sustained service to law librarianship and to the AALL.

She has been a faculty fellow in UGA's Institute on Human Development and Disability. Puckett helped research the briefs for the plaintiffs and amici in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), in which the U.S. Supreme Court determined that mentally disabled persons are entitled to treatment in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. She also served on the governing board of Georgia Options in Community Living.

Puckett earned a bachelor's degree from Eastern Illinois University and her law degree and master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She taught English in high schools in Illinois and Colorado for nearly a decade before determining that her niche was law. She served as a law librarian at the University of Kansas from 1977 to 1978, at Southern Illinois University from 1978 to 1983 and at Northwestern University from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, she became director of the law library and professor at South Texas College of Law, where she remained until joining the UGA faculty in 1994.