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Rebecca White named permanent dean of law school |
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| By Larry B. Dendy |
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Mace says he and President Michael F. Adams decided to appoint White to the position based on her outstanding performance in the interim role and strong support from the school’s faculty, staff and alumni. White, who also holds the J. Alton Hosch Professorship in the school, became interim dean July 1, 2003, when former dean David Shipley stepped down to return to teaching. She will be the first female dean in the school’s 145-year history. “Rebecca has clearly demonstrated that she has the necessary combination of professional competence and personal leadership skills to guide the School of Law’s growth in the coming years,” says Adams. “The school has made important advances under her leadership as interim dean, and we are delighted that she will continue to devote her energy, vision and commitment to attaining higher goals of academic excellence.” Mace says that White’s relationship with the school’s faculty, students and alumni was an important factor in her appointment. “Rebecca has the respect of her fellow faculty members as well as staff and students in the law school, and she has also won the confidence of Georgia’s legal community, which is heavily comprised of UGA law graduates,” says Mace. “This network of support will be extremely valuable as she works to strengthen instruction, scholarship and outreach in the school.” Prior to becoming interim dean, White was associate provost and associate vice president for academic affairs. An authority in the areas of labor law, employment law, employment discrimination and labor arbitration, she joined the law school faculty in 1989. White received the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA’s top teaching honor, in 2000, and law graduates have chosen her six times to receive the law school’s Faculty Book Award for teaching excellence. She is a member of UGA’s Teaching Academy and has been a Senior Teaching Fellow and a Senior Faculty Fellow for the Foundation Fellows program. She is co-author of a textbook and a treatise on employment discrimination, has written numerous articles for law reviews and is on the editorial board of the Labor Law Journal. Her scholarship is often cited in decisions by federal and state courts across the country. |
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