Deborah Darin

From 2013-2026, Deborah Darin served as a full-time librarian and adjunct professor at the law school and taught advanced legal research courses and legal research in the first-year Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) program. Since mid-2026, she continues as a part-time librarian, providing reference services for students and support to the Marquette law journals.  

Ms. Darin graduated from the University of Michigan magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and received her J.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit.  As a public interest lawyer in Michigan, she tried cases and supervised clinic students at the Legal Aid & Defender Association of Detroit and represented UAW workers for the UAW Legal Services Plan. After moving to Wisconsin, Ms. Darin was an attorney for the non-profit Citizens for a Better Environment, participating in air regulations litigation, Community-Right-to-Know suits, and takings litigation. She was appointed and served on the property tax Board of Review at the City of Milwaukee, the City of Milwaukee Board of Zoning, and for ten years was an adjudicator on the City's civil service commission including five years as its president. Ms. Darin completed a master's degree in library and information science in 2007 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She worked part-time at Marquette's law library and wrote the administrative law chapter in Wisconsin Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press, 2011). From 2009-2013, she was a reference librarian and legal research instructor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, returning to Marquette in the summer of 2013. 

She served on the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Government Relations Committee (2012-2015), the AALL Awards Committee (2010-2011), and is a past president of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin (2018-2019).