Dr. Delilah Moore teaches students who are interested in working in the law field and want to build a career out of it. Dr. Moore connects with her students as she talks about her real-world experiences with the class. She teaches four different CTAE law pathway classes: Law and Public Safety, Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Criminal Investigations.
Her career has been as varied as her classes. Moore has been working in the law field since she was 19, going straight out of high school to a private law firm. As she spent her time there, she was studying criminal justice, and later graduated from Kennesaw State University. Moore had a job at Cobb County 911 for five years, which she said was an amazing job, while she was also earning her master’s degree as well as working part-time as a private research assistant.
She started having a rocky time when her job was no longer cooperating with her school schedule, leading her to focus on school and her part-time research. After that, she worked for the Cobb County Magistrate Court, her first introduction to courts, and she fell in love with that. Moore had a change of heart where she wanted to pursue a career in education. She turned out not to like it and headed back into court, where she worked for the Douglas County Magistrate Court for a few years while getting her PH.d Degree. Somehow, she went back to education, and is currently teaching students criminal justice, which is a subject that she has been studying her whole life, and now she couldn’t be happier.
Introduction to Law & Public Safety students complete notes in class and do tiny projects, just getting down to the basics before moving on to the next level.
In the classroom, Dr. Moore encourages her students who are interested in the law field and want to pursue a career.
Moore sends a message to students who want to make this dream a reality.
“You just really have to love it, and that will motivate you,” Moore said. “Another thing is to take breaks. I think the breaks are just as important as the work to have a balance, and I know this sounds really cliche to have a work-life balance, but this is just one of the fields where it matters too much, so take your time and you have to be free mentally, so I would just say love it first ensuring that this is what you want and prioritize your health in order to do it well.”
