Assistant Professor of Clinical Education; Tax Clinic Director
B.S. Accounting Arkansas State University, 1992; J.D. University of
Arkansas, 1996; LL.M. University of Florida College of Law Graduate Tax Program, 1997
Office: Room 105O | Phone: 501-916-5444 | Email: [email protected]
Assistant: Room 105G | Phone: 501-916-5492
Felicia Branch joined the Bowen School of Law faculty in July 2025. She directs and teaches in the law school’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, where student attorneys represent low-income taxpayers at various stages of tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. The taxpayer clinic gives student attorneys the opportunity to represent real clients with real problems, and to learn lawyering skills at a practical level. Also, in keeping with the public service mission of the law school, the Tax Clinic provides pro bono representation to individuals who would otherwise go unrepresented.
Professor Branch graduated from Arkansas State University with a B.S. in Accounting. While working for Arkansas Power & Light (a division of Entergy Corporation) as a Cost Accountant, Professor Branch passed the Certified Public Accountant exam.
After a year working for AP&L, Professor Branch attended and graduated with High Honors with her J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law. Professor Branch received her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation at the University of Florida College of Law the following year. After graduating, she worked as a visiting professor for one year at UF teaching tax research and advanced corporate tax to the LL.M. candidates in the Graduate Tax Program and federal income tax and legal accounting for lawyers to the J.D. candidates. Overlapping her teaching at UF, she began working for Chief Counsel for the IRS, where she spent 7 years, ending her career there as a Senior Attorney in the then-Large and Mid-Sized Business Division.
Professor Branch worked as a full time assistant professor of law at the North Carolina Central University School of Law. She taught various tax law courses, supervised the Small Business and Community Development Clinic, and served as the tax matters expert of the law school’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. Before coming to UA Little Rock, Professor Branch was in private practice and adjunct teaching Federal Taxation at Elon University School of Law. Her main practice areas were tax planning and controversy, and nonprofit formation.
Professor Branch co-authored the book, Mastering Corporate Tax, Second Edition.