Second-year law student Danielle Hines was recently selected the Director of Communications for the Southern Region of the National Black Law Students Association (SRBLSA). The Southern region is home to over 1500 members from 44 law schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. SRBLSA is a regional branch of the National Black Law Students Association, founded in 1968, an organization formed to articulate and promote the needs and goals of Black law students and effectuate change in the legal profession. One of the largest student run organizations in the country with over 6,000 members, NBLSA also has an international presence with chapters or affiliates in six different countries, including the Bahamas, Nigeria and South Africa. Nationally, it is organized into six regions: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Mid-West, Rocky Mountain and Western.  NBLSA has over 200 chapters and is present in all but a few of the nation's law schools.

As the director of communications, Ms. Hines serves as the chief information officer of the Southern region and assists the historian and national secretary in their duties. She supervises all of the various recording officers in the region and conducts the general correspondence of the organization. 

Ms. Hines is a native of the District of Columbia and a graduate of Florida A&M University. Since her matriculation at the law school, she has earned a master's degree in public administration from Southeastern University. 

 The Miles Law School family extends its best wishes and congratulations to Ms. Hines.