Holley received a
B.A. from
Yale University in 1996, and a
J.D. from
Harvard Law School in 1999. She then served as a
law clerk for Chief Judge
Carl E. Stewart of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Holley served as associate dean for academic affairs at the
University of South Carolina School of Law, from which position she was named dean of the
Howard University School of Law in 2014. ==Selected publications==