Sandra Davidson teaches communications law at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and also serves as an adjunct at the School of Law, where she teaches media law. She is the attorney for The Columbia Missourian newspaper, which is produced at the School of Journalism. Davidson earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Connecticut-Storrs and a J.D. from the University of Missouri. While in law school she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Law Review and Order of the Coif.