Interim Dean Jocelyn Benson, of Wayne State University School of Law, has been named the school's permanent dean. According the the Wayne State presser, Benson, who holds a JD from Harvard, is the youngest woman ever to be a law school dean. She is 36.
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Holy moly, 36?
I'll be happy just to have paid off my law school loans by that point.
Posted by: Congrats to you, but LOL me | June 13, 2014 at 02:43 AM
Seems like an extraordinarily accomplished and intelligent young woman . . . who could be doing something (in fact thousands of things) much more worthwhile than being dean of a second-rate law school.
Posted by: Camilla Highwater | June 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM