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Harlee P. Havens

859-226-2219

Harlee Havens is a member of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group in the firm's Lexington, Kentucky office.

Bar Admissions
Kentucky
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
Memberships
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Fayette County Bar Association
Education
J.D., 2022

summa cum laude

University of Kentucky College of Law

  • Order of the Coif

  • Kentucky Law Journal, Managing Editor, Vol. 110; Staff Editor, Vol. 109; Best Second Year Staff Member, Vol. 109; Best Source & Cite, Fain Note, Book Two; Best Source & Cite, VanMeter Article, Book Three

  • CALI Award in Secured Transactions, and Law & Religion

  • Election Law Society, Class Representative (2019-22)

  • Publication: Note, A Reprieve From the Crushing Cost of an Education: Why the Sixth Circuit Should Interpret the Bankruptcy Code to Allow Discharge of Private Student Loans, 110 KY. L.J. 203 (2021)

B.A., Political Science with minor in Legal Studies, 2019

summa cum laude

Western Kentucky University

  • Honors College Graduate

  • Thesis/Capstone: The Effect of Knowledge on Attitudes Towards the U.S. Supreme Court

  • President's Scholar (2015-19)

  • Regents Scholarship; Faculty-Undergraduate Student Engagement Research Grant; Carl P. Chelf Political Science Scholarship Fund

  • Southern Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Panelist: Courts & Their Publics

  • Greek Hall of Fame

  • Greek Academic Hall of Fame

  • Panhellenic Council, 1st Vice President

  • Omega Phi Alpha Sorority, Secretary

  • Mahurin Honors College, HonorsTopper Student Ambassador

  • Greek Jeopardy, Co-Chair

More Than Stites & Harbison

Harlee comes to the firm after serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Gregory N. Stivers, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (2022-23). During law school, she was a summer associate in the Lexington office (2020 and 2021).