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Rebecca L. Scheller
Rebecca L. Scheller serves as the chief administrative officer and associate dean for admissions and financial aid at the University of Wisconsin Law School where she leads the JD admissions and financial aid enterprise with oversight of graduate program admissions. Dean Scheller previously practiced law at the Madison office of DeWitt LLP.
Dean Scheller earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. While a law student, she served as an intern for Justice N. Patrick Crooks of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was president of the UW Law Mock Trial team, secretary of the Latino/a Law Students Association, and articles editor and symposium editor of the Wisconsin Women's Law Journal (now the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society).
Dean Scheller has served 爱游戏体育 as a member of the Board of Trustees (2015-2019), Investment Committee (2015-2017), Nominating Committee (2016, 2017), Audit Committee (2013-2015), and Finance and Legal Affairs Committee (2011-2013). She has also served as chair of the Services and Programs Committee (2017-2019) and as an ex-officio member to all Services and Programs work groups and committees. Most recently, Dean Scheller is serving as the Chair of the 爱游戏体育 Board of Trustees.
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Current Members of the Board of Trustees
Carla E. Anderson
Carla E. Anderson is the Director of Operations for Admissions and Financial Aid and Director of Access Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Carey Law). She has been with Penn Carey Law since July 2006. Before joining Penn Carey Law, Ms. Anderson was a Regional Representative and a Training and Education Specialist for the Western region at the Law School Admission Council (爱游戏体育) for almost nine years. Before her work at 爱游戏体育, Ms. Anderson was the Admissions Coordinator at Temple University鈥擩ames E. Beasley School of Law. She earned her BS degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has served on various committees with 爱游戏体育 over the years, such as the Misconduct and Irregularities in the Admission Process Subcommittee, the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Subcommittee, and the Pipeline Initiatives Workgroup. Currently, she is finishing a two-year term on the Emerging Markets & Innovation Committee.
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Gregory Bowman
Gregory Bowman serves as dean and professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island. During his 21-year teaching career, he has advocated for deeper collaboration and innovation with other academic disciplines, greater representation and inclusion in the legal profession, and enhanced experiential learning and service opportunities for law students.
During his academic career, Dean Bowman has held board and leadership positions at the Law School Admission Council, the Association of American Law Schools, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, and the American Bar Association鈥檚 Police Practices Consortium. In recognition of his contributions to the legal profession and legal education, Bowman has been an American Bar Foundation Fellow, an Association of American Law Schools Fellow, and a member of the American Law Institute. Dean Bowman received his juris doctor degree from Northwestern University鈥檚 Pritzker School of Law and his master鈥檚 degree in international economics from the University of Exeter in England. Prior to teaching, Bowman practiced international trade law in Chicago and Washington, DC for a decade with the law firm Baker McKenzie.
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Lolita Buckner Innis
Lolita Buckner Innis is the 17th dean, the second woman dean, and the first Black dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where she is also Provost's Professor of Law and an affiliate of the Center for African & African American Studies. As Dean she has worked to broaden access and equity for students, has led the largest faculty hiring process in the history of Colorado Law, has shepherded one of the largest clinical gifts in the history of the school, and has given heightened attention to faculty status issues. She received her A.B. from Princeton University, where she majored in Romance Languages and Literature with certificates (minors) in African American and Latin American Studies. She received her J.D. from UCLA, where she was articles editor of the National Black Law Journal, a Moot Court Honors participant and vice-chair of the Black Law Students Association. She earned an LL.M. with Distinction and a Ph.D. in law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Canada, where she focused on Comparative Equality Jurisprudence. At Osgoode she was a Peter Hogg Scholar, received the Mary Jane Mossman Award for work in Feminist Legal Theory, the Harley D. Hallett Award, and was a fellow of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. A highly regarded leader and scholar with a prominent national and international voice in her fields, Dean Inniss is an elected member of the American Law Institute, Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Women in Legal Education section, a member of the AALS Deans鈥� Steering Committee, is an advisor 爱游戏体育 to the Investment Committee, and is the United States Special Rapporteur to the International Academy of Comparative Law on the topic of contemporary slavery. She is also a Princeton University Alumni Council Executive Committee Member and a member of the Princeton University Annual Giving team. She is the author of scores articles and essays, and of the prize-winning legal history book The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (Fordham University Press, 2019, 2020). She is also the co-author of a forthcoming book, Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (with Bridget Crawford) (University of California Press, 2024). Dean Inniss has a broad knowledge of legal education and has taught across the law school curriculum, including service as a doctrinal professor, clinician and a legal writing professor. Dean Inniss is a first-generation college and law school attendee and has attended and worked at both private and public higher education institutions. She is a multi-generational native of Los Angeles, California, and is descended from U.S.-enslaved people based in the U.S. West for almost 150 years. She is competent in French, conversant in Spanish, and has lived and worked in France and in Canada.
Before coming to the University of Colorado Law School, Dean Inniss was the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a University Distinguished Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where she was also a Robert G. Story Distinguished Faculty Fellow. She was also a fellow of New York University-Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France, where she researched slavery, trauma and law. In addition, Dean Inniss held the Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professorship in Women鈥檚 Studies, a distinguished visiting chair at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where she offered interdisciplinary gender, race and law courses to undergraduates. Dean Inniss was also a Baker and Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland State University Law School.
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Marcilynn A. Burke
Marcilynn A. Burke joined Tulane Law in 2024 as dean and Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law, and is formerly the Dean at the University of Oregon School of Law and a former acting assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Burke specializes in property, land use and environmental and natural resources law. She has published extensively in leading law reviews. Burke earned her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her juris doctor from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of both the Yale Journal of International Law and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
After law school, Burke clerked for the Honorable Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia and later joined the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where her practice focused on environmental law, antitrust and civil and criminal litigation. She also served as a visiting professor at Rutgers School of Law in 2001.
In 2002, Burke joined the law faculty at the University of Houston. From 2009 to 2013, she served in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Initially she was deputy director for programs and policy for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and then was appointed acting assistant secretary for land and minerals management for the Department by President Barack Obama. In the latter role, she helped develop the land use, resource management and regulatory oversight policies administered by the BLM, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
Following her term at the Department of the Interior, Burke returned to the University of Houston Law Center as an associate professor of law and later served as associate dean. Known for her engaging personality and rapport with students and colleagues alike, she was named professor of the year by the Law Center鈥檚 Black Law Students Association. In 2017 she was appointed dean of the University of Oregon鈥檚 law school, where she has been hailed as an ambitious, focused and strategic leader. She also currently served as the chair of the board of trustees for the Law School Admission Council (2023-2025).
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Daniel M. Filler
Daniel M. Filler was an inaugural faculty member of the Kline School of Law, helping design and implement the distinctive vision that drives the law school. He became dean of Kline Law in January 2017. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Dean Filler is a recognized legal scholar with expertise in criminal law and the intersection of law and technology. His research appears in leading journals including the Virginia Law Review, the California Law Review and the Iowa Law Review. The U.S. Supreme Court cited his work in the 2016 case, Nichols v. United States. His commentary on legal education is also widely read. In 2008, he co-founded The Faculty Lounge, a nationally recognized blog which has been honored several times as a member of the ABA Blawg 100.
Dean Filler also has deep practice experience. After working for the international corporate firm, Debevoise & Plimpton, he tried criminal cases as a public defender in Philadelphia and the Bronx. He represented clients in capital cases in Alabama. He also practiced special education law, creating and teaching a children鈥檚 rights clinic.
Dean Filler has been active in public policy work, with a particular focus on the death penalty. In 2012, he was appointed by the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission to the state鈥檚 Advisory Committee on Capital Punishment. While in Alabama, he chaired the American Bar Association鈥檚 Alabama Death Penalty Assessment team, whose 2006 report was cited by the Supreme Court in the 2012 decision, Maples v. Thomas.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2017, Dean Filler was elected to the American Law Institute. He earned his JD from New York University School of Law after serving as an editor for the New York University Law Review and being named Outstanding Oralist in the Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition. He clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Dean Filler has been extensively quoted in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, NPR, and NBC News. He has lectured on legal education and American law at universities in China, Europe, and South America.
Kristi Jobson
Kristi Jobson is the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Chief Admissions Officer. Kristi graduated from Harvard College and taught in New York City as a Teach For America corps member. As a student at HLS, Kristi participated in the Board of Student Advisers, the Women鈥檚 Law Association, and the Parody musical. She also led the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender as co-Editor-in-Chief. After clerking for judges in the Boston area, Kristi joined Ropes & Gray as a litigation associate. Of all the many things she enjoys about her current role, Kristi most values the ability to stay connected with students during their years in law school. In 2021, the Women鈥檚 Law Association honored Kristi with an award for exceptional support for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Class of 2022 selected her for the Suzanne L. Richardson Staff Appreciation Award at graduation.
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Johanna Kalb
Johanna Kalb serves as Dean and Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She previously served as Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law from 2021 to 2024. Prior to her deanship, Dean Kalb was the Associate Dean of Administration and Special Initiatives and Edward J. Womac Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law.
Dean Kalb鈥檚 research and teaching interests include federal and state constitutional law, international human rights, and the law of democracy. She is a co-author, with Martha F. Davis, Risa Kaufman, and Rachel Lopez, of the first law school textbook focused on domestic human rights, Human Rights Advocacy in the United States (West, 3d. ed. 2023). Her scholarship appears in U.C. Irvine Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Yale Law and Policy Review, and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, as well as the Washington Law Review Online, Michigan Law Review Online, the NYU Law Review Online, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. Dean Kalb is an academic fellow of the National Civil Justice Institute. She became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council in 2024, and she is a member of the Deans Steering Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. From 2014 to 2016, Kalb served as Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and from 2013 to 2021, she was a fellow in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
Dean Kalb is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies where she completed her M.A. in International Relations with a focus on African Studies. After law school, she served as a clerk for the Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle of the District Court of the District of Columbia. She is admitted to practice in the states of Mississippi and New York.
David Kirschner
David Kirschner is the associate dean of admissions, financial aid, and innovation at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. Kirschner earned his BA in film production cum laude from the University of Southern California and his JD cum laude from California Western School of Law. Kirschner began his career in law school admissions as an alumni recruiter at California Western School of Law before becoming assistant and then associate director of admissions at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University.
In his current position at USC, Kirschner is responsible for the setting and implementation of strategic goals and targets for each admission cycle. Throughout his career, Kirschner has been at the forefront of using technology and data to refine enrollment management practices and craft more effective recruitment and outreach strategies. Kirschner has extensive experience with 爱游戏体育 and other professional organizations related to legal education. Currently, Kirschner chairs 爱游戏体育鈥檚 New Admissions Professionals Workshop and led a re-imagining of the program (2023-2025). Kirschner previously served consecutive terms on the 爱游戏体育 Board of Trustees as the inaugural Chair of 爱游戏体育鈥檚 Emerging Markets & Innovation Committee (2019-2023). He has also served on 爱游戏体育鈥檚 Services and Programs Committee, Test Development & Research, and Finance & Legal Affairs Committee. Kirschner has also served on the Information Support Division Advisory Group and assisting in planning the first ever UNITE preconference in 2022.
Outside of 爱游戏体育, Kirschner currently serves on the AI Advisory Council for Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL); the Advisory Board for the J. Serra High School Law Magnet; and the Alumni Association Board of Director for California Western School of Law. Previously, Kirschner served as chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on PreLegal Education and Admission to Law School and has been a member of American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation site visit teams. He also enjoys co-teaching a summer seminar to incoming law students entitled 鈥淟awyers and Leadership鈥� with Professor Robert Rasmussen.
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Susan L. Krinsky
Susan L. Krinsky is interim president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council. Prior to her current role, she served as 爱游戏体育鈥檚 executive vice president for operations and chief of staff. Before joining 爱游戏体育 in 2018, Krinsky was associate dean for student affairs and communications at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore, where she was responsible for admission, student affairs, registration and enrollment, career development, and communications. Prior to that, she was associate dean at Tulane University Law School, handling admission, financial aid, career development, and communications. Krinsky earned her undergraduate degree from Kirkland College (now Hamilton College) in Clinton, New York; her master鈥檚 degree in health systems and hospital administration from Tulane; and her JD from Yale Law School. She practiced law in Washington, D.C., prior to joining the administration at Tulane. Her service to 爱游戏体育 began in 1984. Serving on every standing committee and on numerous subcommittees, panels, and work groups, she also chaired the Annual Meeting and Educational Conference Planning Work Group, the Services and Programs Committee, and the Test Development and Research Committee before becoming Chair of 爱游戏体育鈥檚 Board of Trustees.
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Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Elizabeth Kronk Warner is dean and professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Dean Kronk Warner was formerly associate dean and professor of law at The University of Kansas School of Law, where she was also the director of the Tribal Law and Government Center. She was previously an active member of the Federal Bar Association, serving on its national board of directors. She also cochaired the ABA鈥檚 Native American Resources Committee.
Dean Kronk Warner is a nationally recognized expert on the intersection of environmental and Indian law. She has taught courses on property, Indian, environmental, and natural resources law and supervised KU Law鈥檚 Tribal Judicial Support Clinic. She has received several teaching excellence awards, coauthored several books on environmental issues and Native Americans, and has 40 articles and book chapters to her credit. A citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, she served as an appellate judge for the tribe and as a district judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe.
Dean Kronk Warner earned her JD from The University of Michigan Law School and her undergraduate degree in communications from Cornell University. She also studied at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She worked in private practice for several years before entering academia. Prior to joining the University of Kansas, Dean Kronk Warner was a law professor at the University of Montana and Texas Tech.
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Terence J. Lau
Terence J. Lau was appointed the 13th Dean of the Syracuse University College of Law in 2024. He is also a Professor of Law.
Lau graduated from Syracuse Law in 1998 and began practicing in Detroit in the Office of the General Counsel at Ford Motor Company in the International Trade and Transactions practice group. His practice focused on three primary areas: distribution, mergers & acquisitions, and compliance with U.S. law for foreign affiliates and subsidiaries. After three years in this role, he was transferred to Bangkok where he served as Ford鈥檚 Director for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Government Affairs, responsible for all government affairs matters in the 10-country group of Southeast Asian nations.
In 2002, he started his academic career at the School of Business Administration at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He was tenured as a business law Associate Professor in 2006 and then took a year鈥檚 leave to serve as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States in the Office of the Chief Justice. After serving as Professor and Associate Dean, he was appointed Director of Faculty Affairs and Corporate Engagement at the University of Dayton China Institute in Suzhou, China, in 2016.
In 2018, Lau was appointed Dean of the College of Business at California State University, Chico (CSU Chico), where he helped launch the College鈥檚 first fully online MBA program. In 2023, he served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management. In July 2023, he served as Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at CSU Chico before returning to Syracuse in 2024.
Lau has taught a variety of undergraduate, MBA, and J.D.-level courses in his career including new venture creation and entrepreneurship. He is the author of The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business, now in its Fifth Edition, and has been adopted by over 200 universities and colleges. His research focuses on corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and automotive distribution, and has appeared in Nevada Law Journal, DePaul Law Review, American Business Law Journal, University of Dayton Law Review, and William and Mary Journal of Women & The Law. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of The American Business Law Journal.
Lau is a former member of the Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors, a former Board of Directors member of Mikesells in Dayton, Ohio, and a former Board of Directors member of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, California. He is admitted to practice in Michigan and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Bianca Mack
Bianca Mack is the associate dean for student affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She served as assistant dean for admissions and financial aid at The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and as the director of diversity services at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School prior to her tenure at Carolina Law. In addition to her work at the law school, Dean Mack volunteers with the Law School Admission Council and various community organizations. Dean Mack graduated from George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School with a Juris Doctor. She earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Duke University and her MBA from DeVry University.
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Shawn D. McShay
Shawn D. McShay is the assistant dean for graduate enrollment management at Boston College Law School, where he leads strategic planning, recruitment, admissions, and financial aid operations for the school鈥檚 JD, LLM, MLS, and SJD programs. With over 20 years of experience in legal education, Dean McShay has advised thousands of prospective law students and helped institutions optimize enrollment strategy and resource allocation in a competitive national landscape.
Dean McShay earned both his BS and MBA from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He has held senior leadership positions at several top-ranked law schools and brings a deep understanding of the legal education markets in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston. His work emphasizes data-informed decision-making, enrollment equity, and cross-functional collaboration across academic, administrative, and student service units.
He has served the Law School Admission Council (爱游戏体育) in a variety of capacities, including chair of the 2019 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference Planning Work Group and as a long-standing member of the Misconduct and Irregularities in the Admission Process Subcommittee. In 2025, Dean McShay will begin a one-year appointment to the 爱游戏体育 Board of Trustees.
He also contributes to national DEI efforts in legal education as a founding board member of the Association of Law School Diversity Professionals (ALDiP) and a member of the planning committee for the Annual Meeting of Law School Diversity Professionals (AMDiP).
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Patricia Roberts
Patricia Roberts became the tenth dean of St. Mary鈥檚 School of Law on June 1, 2020. A legal educator for two decades, the majority of her career has been spent in clinical teaching, supervising law students in providing assistance to underserved members of the community.
Roberts鈥� initial term as dean included the Law School鈥檚 creation of the first entirely online J.D. program accredited by the American Bar Association, increased applications and financial aid awarded to entering classes, improvements in LSAT and GPA medians, advocacy team ranking of 12th in the nation, higher graduate employment, and hosting of the inaugural Lawtina Network Summit to increase the presence of, and support for, Latinas in the legal profession. The last three years also included creation of a First Generation Bootcamp for entering students, an intensive clerkship preparation program, and student Mentor Circles with members of the bench and bar.
Roberts earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Randolph-Macon Woman鈥檚 College in Lynchburg, Virginia, with a double major in Biology and Psychology. She practiced law for eight years as a solo practitioner and later as a managing partner of a civil practice law firm after earning her law degree from William & Mary.
She returned to William & Mary in 2000 and held numerous administrative roles until her appointment to the clinical faculty in 2008 as Director of Clinical Programs. In 2017, after holding numerous administrative and academic positions, she was named Vice Dean, a position she left to become the Dean at St. Mary鈥檚.
As Vice Dean, Roberts was William & Mary Law鈥檚 chief academic officer, responsible for academic programs and policies that are essential to an excellent legal education. She simultaneously served as the Director of Clinical Programs, overseeing a center and nine legal clinics that provided pro bono representation to underserved clients in Virginia鈥檚 Hampton Roads area. The school鈥檚 first in-house clinics, including those specializing in veterans鈥� benefits, elder law, special education, appellate and Supreme Court litigation, and a center for coastal policy, were created during her tenure as director. She also helped create the Institute for Special Education Advocacy, an intensive one-week program to train attorneys and advocates to maximize their effectiveness. A similar program has now been created at St. Mary鈥檚, the Special Education Advocacy Summit.
Roberts has been a nationwide leader in legal efforts to aid veterans. She was the inaugural President of the Board of Directors of the National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium and creator of Military Mondays, a program that began at William & Mary Law School and served as a model for providing advice and counsel to veterans in numerous Starbucks locations across the country. She was a regular speaker on issues related to veterans鈥� law and access to justice nationwide.
Roberts is the host of the Aspen Leading Edge, and was the founding host of EdUp Legal, both podcasts about legal education and its future.
Gregory Roseboro II
Gregory Roseboro II is an accomplished higher education administrator, currently serving as the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Before assuming his current role, Gregory was the Assistant Director of Admissions and Diversity & Inclusion at Moritz. Prior to joining The Ohio State University, Gregory worked as a Director at Major, Lindsey & Africa, where he provided staffing solutions to law firms and in-house legal departments. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Morehouse College.
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Bekah Saidman-Krauss
Bekah Saidman-Krauss earned her B.A., cum laude, from Smith College and her J.D. from Penn State Dickinson Law, where she was inducted into the Woolsack Honor Society for her outstanding academic performance. After graduating from Dickinson Law, Saidman-Krauss worked as an associate in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton (now Troutman Pepper). As a member of the firm鈥檚 Health Effects Litigation Practice Group, she helped defend pharmaceutical companies in products liability and personal injury actions as well as in claims brought by state Attorneys General for restitution of Medicaid payments and civil penalties. In 2013, Saidman-Krauss returned to her alma mater to serve as Dickinson Law鈥檚 head admissions and financial aid administrator.
In 2016, Saidman-Krauss received Penn State鈥檚 Outstanding Service Award from the University鈥檚 Commission for LGBTQ Equity to acknowledge her efforts to improve the climate of diversity and inclusion for LGBTQ individuals on campus. From 2017 to 2019, she served as a member of the Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) Subcommittee of the Law School Admissions Council鈥檚 Diversity Committee. As part of her service on the SOGI Subcommittee, Saidman-Krauss assisted in planning the inaugural 爱游戏体育 Equality Conference: Building, Maintaining, and Promoting LGBTQ-Inclusive Law Schools, which took place in 2018. In 2023, the AALS Section on Pre-Law and Admission to Law School awarded Saidman-Krauss the Inaugural Spotlight Award in recognition of her work to increase access to legal education and diversify the legal profession.
After spending September 2023 as a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo in Norway, Saidman-Krauss returned to Pennsylvania, where she resides with her goldendoodle, Rashi. She remains licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Katrin Hussmann Schroll
Katrin Hussmann Schroll is the Associate Dean of Enrollment Management, Integrated Marketing, and Data Analytics at the University of Miami School of Law. In this role, Dean Schroll provides strategic leadership, policy direction, and operational oversight for the offices of Admissions and Student Recruitment, Enrollment Management, Law Communications, and the DataHub. She also serves as the School of Law鈥檚 liaison to the University鈥檚 Office of Student Financial Assistance and Employment, Student Accounts, 'Canes Central, and International Services.
Dean Schroll is actively involved with the Law School Admission Council (爱游戏体育), where she serves on the Schools and Candidates Committee. Previously, she was a member of 爱游戏体育's Board of Trustees and chaired several committees, including the Schools and Candidates Committee and the Misconduct and Irregularities in the Admission Process Subcommittee. Additionally, Dean Schroll has played a significant role in the Audit Committee, the Information Services Division Advisory Group, the Annual Meeting Planning Work Group, the Newcomers Work Group, the National Recruitment Work Group, and the Graduate Programs Work Group.
Her contributions extend to other organizations, as she has contributed as a member of the Law School Diversity Professionals' Annual Meeting Planning Committee, participated in the Maryland State Bar Association's MYLAW Law & Leadership Institute Committee, and served on the Board of Directors for the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association. Dean Schroll was also a former evaluator for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and the Schwarzman Scholars Program.
Previously, Dean Schroll was the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Enrollment Management at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. In addition to her responsibilities in that role, she worked with students and clients in the Immigration Law Clinic at Maryland Carey Law and taught legal writing and constitutional law at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.
Dean Schroll is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Maryland Carey Law and her bachelor's degree in economics from Florida International University.
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Akira Shiroma
Akira Shiroma is the Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at American University Washington College of Law received a Bachelor of Science degree from San Diego State University in 1986 and a Juris Doctorate degree from Golden Gate University in 1991. While at Golden Gate, he served as Vice President of Scholarship in the Asian Pacific Law Students鈥� Association and worked in the admissions office during his second and third year of law school.
Dean Shiroma is a member of the California State Bar and practiced law in a small civil litigation firm in Southern California defending public entities. Additionally, he has worked pro bono for the San Francisco Bar Association Homeless Advocacy Project.
He returned to academia joining the University of California Hastings College of the Law鈥檚 admissions staff in 1995 and later served as the Director of Admissions. He has served on Law School Admissions Council Schools and Candidates Committee, Misconduct and Irregularities Committee, Newcomers Workshop Planning Work Group, Annual Conference Planning Work Group, ESCon Planning Work Group, has been a panelist at 爱游戏体育 forums and has served on the Minority Affairs Committee. In 2004, he joined American University Washington College of Law where he currently serves as the Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.
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Ronald Weich
Ronald Weich became dean of Seton Hall University School of Law on July 1, 2024. Weich comes to Seton Hall from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he had served as dean since 2012. While at Baltimore Law, he led a faculty of 45 tenured and tenure-track professors, as well as many adjunct faculty members, teaching fellows, and professors of practice. In addition, he managed the school鈥檚 annual budget and led the development of a strategic plan that emphasizes admissions standards, academic excellence, faculty scholarships, and career development.
Prior to his time in academia, Weich was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department of Justice, a post he held from 2009 to 2012. His work in Washington, D.C., included several other prominent positions, including Chief Counsel to U.S. Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Harry Reid. Weich also served as a partner in the firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP.
Weich began his career in the Manhattan District Attorney鈥檚 Office as an Assistant District Attorney. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, which he attended after undergraduate studies at Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
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Sarah C. Zearfoss
Sarah C. Zearfoss is senior assistant dean at The University of Michigan Law School, where she directs all aspects of JD and LLM admissions and supervises the Office of Financial Aid.
Dean Zearfoss earned a BA in psychology, cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College and a JD, magna cum laude, from Michigan Law. In law school, she served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law and authored a note on international women's rights, for which she received the Eric Stein Award. She was also the recipient of the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship and the Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award, and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Following graduation, she clerked for the Honorable James L. Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate in the Detroit office of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Dean Zearfoss returned to the law school in 1999 in the capacity of judicial clerkship adviser, before heading the Admissions Office in 2001.