CORRECTION: Years that Brown was Law Review notes and comments editor at the University of Illinois College of Law were incorrect in an earlier verison of this story.
Veteran Quinnipiac University law professor Jennifer Gerarda Brown will helm the Hamden college’s law school, effective July 1.
Brown, 52, was crowned from a deep talent pool following a national search, the private, four-year school said Wednesday.
She succeeds Brad Saxton, who is staying on as a member of the law school faculty, a school spokesman said.
Brown joined the law school faculty in 1994 and currently is the Carmen Tortora Professor of Law. For nearly 15 years, Brown has served as the director of the School of Law’s Center on Dispute Resolution.
One of her first assignments as dean is leading the law school’s move from the Mt. Carmel campus in Hamden, where it has been since 1995, to Quinnipiac’s North Haven campus, also home to its schools of medicine, nursing, health sciences and education, officials said.
Brown received her A.B. from Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College. She received her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law where she was a notes and comments editor of the Law Review from 1984-1985.
She held a clerkship from 1985-1986 with Central Illinois U.S District Court Judge Harold A. Baker.
Brown worked as an associate at the law firm of Winston and Strawn in Chicago from 1986-1989. She is a nationally recognized scholar.
