Associate Professor
A.S., cum laude, Temple University 1976
B.A., cum laude, Temple University 1977
J.D., magna cum laude, Thomas M. Cooley Law School 1991

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Before joining Cooley's full-time faculty, Professor Tombers served as an adjunct professor and a Research & Writing grading assistant. She teaches Law Practice and is the faculty adviser to Cooley's moot court program.

As a Cooley student, Professor Tombers won the Alumni Association's Distinguished Student Award, the Women Lawyers Association's Outstanding Woman Law Graduate Award, several American Jurisprudence Awards and Certificates of Merit. She served as the Casenotes Editor of the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review.

Professor Tombers served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Patricia J. Boyle of the Michigan Supreme Court. Following her clerkship, she entered private practice as a civil appellate attorney concentrating in insurance defense. Before turning to teaching, she had a private practice that focused on appeals and complex research. She has practiced before the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Florida Court of Appeal.

Professor Tombers is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and has served as the chair and as the treasurer of its Appellate Practice Section. She was also the section's newsletter editor. She is also a member of the Appellate Bench Bar Conference Foundation's Planning Committee.

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