Lori A. Ringhand is the School of Law’s new associate dean for academic affairs. In this role, she supervises the law school’s academic program and curriculum.
Ringhand is a nationally known Supreme Court scholar and two-time recipient of the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, the law school’s highest teaching honor.
Ringhand succeeds Lonnie T. Brown Jr. who served in the position for two years.
“A few of her initial projects will include overseeing the law school’s ‘assessment’ project in connection with the new American Bar Association Accreditation Standards and playing an active role in the upcoming discussions to reform the law school’s curriculum,”said School of Law Dean Peter “Bo” Rutledge. “Along with Deans Amann, Rodrigues and Hashimoto, she will round out the senior administrative team on the law school’s faculty.”
