Final update
This is a brutal time to take leadership of a new law school, but openings must be filled! Here, then, is the list for annual list, which I will try to update reasonably regularly. I know I've missed a few – please alert me via email or comments.
Akron
Arkansas – Little Rock (search committee here) (finalists are Michael Hunter Schwartz, David Crump, Richard Bales and Candace Zierdt) (Michael Hunter Schwartz named dean)
Arizona (search committee here) (Marc Miller named dean)
Campbell (Myers McRae consulting) (J. Rich Leonard named dean)
Catholic (Daniel Attridge named dean)
Charlotte (Korn/Ferry consulting) (Jay Conison named dean)
Connecticut (search committee here) (Witt/Kieffer consulting) (finalists are James Hackney, Edward Stein, Joseph McDougald and Timothy Fisher) (Timothy Fisher named dean)
Detroit – Mercy (EFL Associates consulting)
George Washington
Golden Gate (search committee at the same link) (Rachel Van Cleave named dean)
Hofstra (Eric Lane named dean)
Howard
Indiana – Bloomington (search committee here) (finalists are Michael Gerhardt, Jeffrey Stake, Kellye Testy, and Larry Solan)
Indiana – Indianapolis (search committee here) (Andrew Klein named dean)
La Verne (Gilbert Holmes named dean)
Louisville
Memphis (Peter Letsou named dean)
Michigan (down to three unnamed finalists) (Mark West named dean)
Nevada – Las Vegas (Annette Clark, Daniel Hamilton, and Robert Ackerman finalists) (Daniel Hamilton named dean)
New Mexico (search committee here) (finalists are Alfred Mathewson, Barbara Bergman, Melanie Wilson, and David Herring)
New York University (Trevor Morrison named dean)
Northern Kentucky (Michael Whiteman chair of search committee) (Witt/Kieffer consulting) (Jeffrey Standen named dean)
Ohio Northern (Richard Bales named dean)
Penn State
Quinnipiac (Witt/Kieffer consulting) (Jennifer Brown named dean)
Saint Louis (Michael Wolff named dean)
Samford (Cumberland) (Dean John Carroll stepping down in 2014)
San Francisco (Isaacson Miller consulting) (finalists are Josh Davis, Julie Nice, John Trasviña, Phyllis Crocker, and James Hackney) (John Trasviña named dean)
Santa Clara (search committee here) (Lisa Kloppenberg named dean)
Seattle (Annette Clark named dean)
Southern Methodist
Southwestern (Isaacson Miller consulting) (Susan Prager named dean)
Thomas Jefferson (search committee here) (Thomas Guernsey named dean)
Utah
Valparaiso (Witt/Kieffer consulting)
Wayne State
Willamette (search committee is here) (Curtis Bridgeman named dean)
Hofstra's finalists are: Leonard M. Baynes, Michael T. Cahill and Eric Lane.
Memphis has a dean search ongoing.
Quinnipiac is also searching for a new dean.
NYU is searching for a new dean.
For those interested in applying for deanships, I highly recommend the job. I look forward to coming to work everyday.
That being said, don't apply if you think that being a dean in 2012 and beyond will be business as usual. Fortunately, the challenges we face are also opportunities to make changes in legal education we should have made years ago. Good luck to each of you in the hunt, and best wishes to the schools involved in searches.