Law School Dean Searches 2011-12 Edition

Updated 1/30/2012

Time flies when you're having fun!  And what could be more fun than posting the annual list of dean searches?    As always, I encourage folks to contact me with updates - ideally via my email, danielmfiller@gmail.com.  

Albany (Isaacson, Miller consulting on search)

Appalachian (Judge Keary Williams, chair of search committee) (Lucy McGough named dean)

Arizona State (search committee here)

Baltimore (Greenwood/Asher & Assoc. consulting)

Brooklyn Law School  (search committee here) (Witt/Kiefer consulting) (Lawrence Solan, Russell Osgood, Janet Levit and Nicholas Allard finalists)

California Western (search committee here) (Isaacson, Miller consulting)

Campbell University  (Dr. Dwaine Greene, chair of search committee)

Catholic University (Dr. Michael Mack, chair of search committee)

Charlotte School of Law

Emory  (search committee here) (Howard Abrams, Frank Vandall, and Robert Schapiro finalists)

Hofstra

Indiana Tech (Peter Alexander named dean)

LaVerne

UMass Dartmouth

McGeorge (U of Pacific) (Francis "Jay" Mootz III named dean)

Missouri  (search committee here) (finalists are Gary Myers, Andrew Klein, Robert Pushaw, Marcella David and Beverly Moran)

New York Law (search committee here) (Storbeck Pimentel consulting)

North Texas (Royal Furgeson named dean)

Northeastern

Oklahoma City (Judge Valerie Couch named dean)

Pittsburgh

South Dakota

St. Thomas (Minnesota) (search committee here)

Stetson (search committee here)  (Christopher Pietruszkiewicz named dean)

Texas (search committee is here)

Touro (search committee here)

Vermont  (Mark Latham, co-chair) (Isaacson, Miller consulting) (Raymond Ku, Mark Mihaly, Gary Robers, Niels Schaumann and Brenda Smith finalists)

Washington & Lee (search committee here) (Isaacson, Miller consulting) (Marion Crain, Nora Demleitner, Michael Gerhardt and David Scheffer finalists) (Nora Demleitner named dean)