Law.com, Ahead of the Curve: 2023 Has Been the Year of Law School Leadership Changes:
Nearly one-third of the 196 American Bar Association-accredited law schools have or will have a change in deanship. My data includes the names of more than 90 individuals who were or are deans.
Below are law schools, in alphabetical order, by categories of permanent deans, interim dean appointments, reappointed deans and lastly, deans who will be stepping down.
According to Rosenblatt's Deans Database, the median current tenure of deans is 3.07 years. Other dean data:
- 57.8% Male, 42.2% Female
- 65.8% White, 20.6% Black, 6.5% Hispanic/Latino, 2.5% Asian/Pacific Islander, 2.0% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.5% Iranian
