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Leslie Kendrick | |
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| 13th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Risa L. Goluboff |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Education | University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill (BA) Magdalen College,Oxford (MPhil,DPhil) University of Virginia (JD) |
Leslie Carolyn Kendrick (born 1976) [1] is an American legal scholar who serves as the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law,where she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law. [2]
Kendrick was born in Floyd County,Kentucky,to William Kendrick,an attorney,and Leatha Kendrick,a poet and writing instructor. Her parents had met while they were students at the University of Kentucky. [3]
Kendrick was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,earning a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in classics and English as a Morehead Scholar in 1998,then studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. [4] She received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and a D.Phil. from Magdalen College in 2000 and 2003,respectively. Her dissertation was titled "John Milton and the transformation of Virgilian pathos". [5] Afterwards,she attended the University of Virginia School of Law,where she was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar and an editor of the Virginia Law Review ,graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 2006. [2]
After graduating from law school,Kendrick was a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit then clerked for Justice David Souter at the U.S. Supreme Court. [2]
Kendrick was an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia from 2008 to 2013,then was promoted to a full-time professor of law in 2013. She served as the law school's vice-dean from 2017 to 2021. [6] The school announced on December 18,2023,that Kendrick would serve as dean of the law school,succeeding Risa L. Goluboff on July 1,2024. [7]
Kendrick is a member of the American Law Institute. [2]
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