According to Rosenblatt's Deans Database, the median current tenure of deans is 2.10 years. The longest serving current deans are:

1. Joseph Kearney (Marquette):  22.13 years
2. Leticia Diaz (Barry):  18.60 years
3. Chris Guthrie (Vanderbilt): 16.17 years
4. Stephen Mazza (Kansas):  15.12 years
5. Vivian Rivera (University of Puerto Rico):  14.53 years
6. Wendy Perdue (Richmond):  14.12 years
7. Anthony Crowell (New York Law School):  13.22 years
8. Rich Leonard (Campbell):  12.11 years
9. Julio Maldonado (Inter American University of Puerto Rico):  12.11 years
10. Alberto R. Gonzales (Belmont):  11.20 years

Other dean data:

Gender:

• 58.7% Male
• 41.3% Female

Ethnicity:

• 66.2% White/Caucasian
• 22.9% Black/African American
• 5.5% Hispanic/Latino
• 2.0% Asian/Pacific Islander
• 1.5% Native American
• 0.5% Arab/Middle Eastern
• 0.5% Asian American
• 0.5% Iranian American
• 0.5% South Asian

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