Title IX Coordinator Training

Melissa Carleton is Partner and Higher Education Chair at Bricker Graydon LLP. She is also the Vice President for Education and a Senior Consultant with her firm’s affiliate, INCompliance Consulting.   

As an attorney for colleges and universities, she handles matters involving student affairs, student conduct, disability accommodations, student confidentiality, policies, contracts, governance, accreditation, and employment matters. She takes a practical proactive approach to legal issues and much prefers training thoughtfully at the outset over “expensive professional development” (also known as litigation and OCR investigations). Melissa has a special interest in civil rights law, and in particulate Title IX. As a consultant, she conducts impartial investigations, hearings, and compliance reviews under both the 2020 and 2024 Title IX regulations. She is a regular speaker at national conferences, a guest speaker in academic settings, and a strong supporter of NACUA’s collegial educational community. 

Melissa has a Bachelor’s in Music Education from The Ohio State University, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio with her husband (also a lawyer), two children, two dogs, two cats, and a leopard gecko. The gecko is the only one that doesn’t cause any trouble. 

Lucy France serves as the General Counsel for the University of Montana, part of the Montana University System under the governance of the Montana Board of Regents. She is primarily responsible for the legal affairs of the university, including all colleges, schools, units and its affiliate campuses. Her work includes the wide array of complex legal matters that face a large public research university. She also oversees the University Compliance Office, the ADA/504 Coordinator, University Policies and the Public Records function. 

Lucy previously served as the Equal Opportunity Director for the University. Before she joined the University in 2008, Lucy spent 13 years and was elevated to be a partner with the Missoula law firm Garlington, Lohn & Robinson. Immediately after law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable James F. Battin of the United States District Court for the District of Montana.  

Lucy is an adjunct instructor at the University’s Alexander Blewett III School of Law. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (2017-2020), and currently serves as Secretary of the NACUA Board of Directors. She has received the J.B. Speer Award for Distinguished Administrative Service at the University of Montana. 

Lucy earned her B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley, and her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law, with honors.  

Bindu Jayne has worked for over fifteen years in the civil rights, compliance, and equity space in higher education at such institutions as Swarthmore College, the University of Delaware, Appalachian State University, and Rowan University.  At each institution she oversaw broad portfolios and served as the Title IX Coordinator. Ms. Jayne is the founding partner of Sage Education Consulting, LLC, which provides civil rights-related investigation, adjudication, consulting, and policy drafting services to higher education clients. Prior to her work in higher education, Ms. Jayne began her legal career as an associate in the Philadelphia office of a large international law firm. Ms. Jayne received a B.A. in government from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.