Everett Bellamy has been on the forefront of higher education for nearly 50 years. After graduating from Cleveland State University, he served 30 years as an assistant dean for the J.D. program at Georgetown University Law Center, retiring as senior assistant dean. He also was an adjunct law professor and. the interim director of the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Georgetown Law.

For twelve years, he was co-chair of the National Bar Association Law Professors Division. He attended the Northwestern School of Law, Serle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Program.

Dean Bellamy has been an instructor and former executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Law School Preparation Institute (CHH) and a guest lecturer at Howard University Small Business Development Center, Babson College School of Entrepreneurship, and the University of Maryland’s Hinman CEOs Program in Entrepreneurship Education.
He served as the general counsel and EVP for Thread Bioscience Inc. and was a legal advisor for Atunwa Digital.

Bellamy received the Georgetown Law David J. McCarthy, Jr. Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Who’s Who in American Law, the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame Award, the National Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Council on the Legal Education Opportunity EDGE Award. He was awarded the Washington Bar Association’s Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit.

He was appointed a commissioner for the city of Annapolis, Maryland Planning Commission.The annual Georgetown Negotiations Competition is named in his honor.