TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 25, 2021

Vanderbilt Law School’s director of diversity, equity and community will have a new title after anonymous donors committed to fund an endowed directorship in honor of longtime law professor Robert Belton, the Nashville Post reports. Professor Yesha Yadav has overseen the office since its creation last summer and her new title is associate dean and Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community. Belton was the first Black professor to gain tenure at Vanderbilt Law School and was an expert in labor and employment law. He joined the faculty in 1975 after five years as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a stint in private practice. Belton retired in 2009 and died in 2012 at the age of 76.