Tamika Moses

Tamika Moses received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.S.W. from Virginia Commonwealth University. After graduate school, she was employed as a social worker for several years before pursuing her legal education. Professor Moses received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law where she served as the managing editor of the Human Rights & Globalization Law Review and a student attorney in the Civil Rights Clinic.

After law school, Professor Moses clerked for the Honorable George L. Russell, III, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. After her clerkship, she joined the Superior Court Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as an assistant U.S. attorney, where she prosecuted various criminal offenses, including misdemeanors and violent crimes. In 2017, Professor Moses relocated to North Carolina and joined the Economic Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina as a special assistant U.S. attorney, where she focused on benefits fraud, bank/wire fraud, and other white-collar offenses.

In 2020, Professor Moses joined the NCCU School of Law faculty as an adjunct professor. She became a full-time member of the faculty in 2021 and was voted Professor of the Year for the day program in 2023. Professor Moses currently teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and a Criminal Prosecution seminar. Her forthcoming articles, "No Knock? No Case: Prosecutorial Deterrence as a Countermeasure to No-Knock Warrants" and "Georgia (RICO) on My Mind," will be published in the Utah Law Review and Boston University Law Review, respectively.