Dean Cynthia Nance, Past National Fellows Chair and Patron Fellow, is one of four law school deans being featured by Law.com for Women’s History Month. The series highlights women deans who were the first female leaders at one or more law schools over the past few decades.
In the article, Dean Nance talks about the interview process to become dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, how she handled being the first woman dean, and some of the most rewarding moments while she was dean. One of those moments was when UA hired Stacy Leeds, Fellow and now the Dean of Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, to succeed Dean Nance and become the first-ever Native American woman dean.
This is her second time serving as dean of the law school, the first being from 2006-2011, after which she continued as the Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law in 2012. Her teaching and scholarship focus on labor and employment law, workplace legislation, and poverty law. She was the law school’s first director of pro bono and community engagement.
Read the article here.