Leslie Kendrick

Leslie Kendrick
13th Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2024
Preceded byRisa L. Goluboff
Personal details
Born1976 (age 48–49)
Floyd County, Kentucky, U.S.
EducationUniversity 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]

Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

References

  1. ^ Goldberg, John C. P. (2021). Tort law: Responsibilities and Redress. Aspen casebook series (Fifth ed.). New York: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 978-1-5438-0680-9 – via Michigan State University.
  2. ^ a b c d "Leslie Kendrick". University of Virginia School of Law. 2024. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
  3. ^ Hill, Rachael (2024-02-21). "Floyd native named dean of UVA School of Law". Floyd County Chronicle & Times. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  4. ^ Dissertation: John Milton and the transformation of Virgilian pathos at the Oxford University Library.
  5. ^ CV via the University of Virginia School of Law.
  6. ^ Wood, Mary (December 18, 2023). "UVA Names Leslie Kendrick as Next Dean of the School of Law". University of Virginia Law School. Retrieved July 15, 2024.