Leslie Kendrick | |
---|---|
13th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law | |
Assumed office July 1, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Risa L. Goluboff |
Personal details | |
Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Floyd County,Kentucky,U.S. |
Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Magdalen College,Oxford (BPhil,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 in 1998,then studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and D.Phil. from Magdalen College in 2000 and 2003,respectively. Her dissertation was titled "John Milton and the transformation of Virgilian pathos". [4] 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. [5] 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. [6]
Kendrick is a member of the American Law Institute. [2]
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia,United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village,a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original governing Board of Visitors included three U.S. presidents:Jefferson,James Madison,and James Monroe,the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two rectors,Presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation,with Jefferson designing both the original courses of study and the university's architecture. Located within its historic 1,135-acre central campus,the university is composed of eight undergraduate and three professional schools:the School of Law,the Darden School of Business,and the School of Medicine.
Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr. was an American government official and college president and administrator. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1936 as a member of Sigma Chi and Pershing Rifles,he attended Merton College at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He served as lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned to the University of Kentucky and became a professor and then dean of the College of Law,before becoming president of West Virginia University. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1961 and 1962 and served as president of Indiana University from 1962 to 1968. He was the president of the National Audubon Society from 1968 until 1981.
The University of Virginia School of Law is the law school of the University of Virginia,a public research university in Charlottesville,Virginia.
John Calvin Jeffries,Jr. is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008.
The University of Virginia College of Arts &Sciences is the largest of the University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program,the College comprises the liberal arts and humanities section of the University.
The Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion is an interdenominational divinity school at Vanderbilt University,a major research university located in Nashville,Tennessee. It is one of only six university-based schools of religion in the United States without a denominational affiliation that service primarily mainline Protestantism.
Benjamin Charles Zipursky is a Canadian legal scholar and professor at Fordham Law in New York City. He has been interviewed by PBS Newshour,BBC,and The New York Times on the Vioxx wrongful death cases and other torts cases. As an author of the casebook Tort Law:Responsibilities and Redress,he is nationally recognized as a scholar on torts.
Martha Louise Minow is an American legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the 12th Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017 and has taught at the Law School since 1981.
Sarah Hull Cleveland,an American judge,lawyer,law professor,and former State Department official,is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the provost of Harvard University,and was the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School. He was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.
Henry Julian Abraham was a German-born American scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law. He was James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He was the author of 13 books,most in multiple editions,and more than 100 articles on the U.S. Supreme Court,judicial appointments,judicial process,and civil rights and liberties.
Risa Lauren Goluboff is an American legal scholar who served as the 12th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2016 to 2024,the first woman to hold the position. She is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard is a legal scholar who has devoted his professional life to understanding the Supreme Court,the American Constitution,and constitutions of the world. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Washingtonian magazine has named Professor Howard one of the most respected educators in the nation,and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Library of Virginia included Professor Howard on their list of the "greatest Virginians" of the 20th century. In 2013,the University of Virginia recognized Howard with its Thomas Jefferson Award—the highest honor given to faculty members at the University.
The University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium is a cemetery on the grounds of the University of Virginia,located at the intersection of McCormick Road and Alderman Road. In operation since 1828,during the earliest days of the university,the cemetery is the final resting place for many University of Virginia professors,administrators,and alumni. It includes a large burial area that holds the remains of 1,097 Confederate States Army soldiers. The cemetery is in two sections;the newer section includes a columbarium to provide more space for burials.
James Edward Ryan is an American lawyer and professor. Since 2018,he has served as the ninth president of the University of Virginia. He previously served as the eleventh dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2013 to 2018.
Walter Floyd "Jack" Pratt Jr. was the Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law,where he served as dean from 2006 to 2011. Pratt's research focus is legal history,contracts and commercial law.
Milton Carl Moreland is an American academic administrator and archaeologist who is the 21st and current president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Memphis,Moreland taught for eight years at Huntingdon College and was a member of the faculty and administration for thirteen years at Rhodes College,serving for some time as the dean of faculty,vice president for academic affairs,and provost. In February 2020,he was announced as president of Centre College;he assumed office on July 1,2020,succeeding John A. Roush,and was formally inaugurated in October 2021.
Meredith D. Clark is an American journalist and scholar. As of 2021 she is an associate professor at Northeastern University. She was previously an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include Black Twitter,cancel culture,and systemic racism in US news media. She was named by The Root to their 2015 list of 100 most influential Black Americans after her Ph.D. dissertation,To Tweet Our Own Cause:A Mixed-Methods Study of the Online Phenomenon "Black Twitter",won a Top Dissertation award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Richard A. Merrill was an American lawyer,government official,and academic administrator who served as the 7th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and the chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration from 1976 to 1978.
Dayna Bowen Matthew is a legal scholar,author,and academic administrator currently serving as dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her legal scholarship has focused primarily on racial disparities in healthcare and civil rights law.