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Penn Notables

University Leaders Deans of the Schools Deans of the Law School, 1852-present

Dean Term
George Sharswood 1852 – 1868
Elihu Spencer Miller 1868 – 1872
Edward Coppée Mitchell 1874 – 1886
George Tucker Bispham 1887 – 1888
Christopher Stuart Patterson 1888 – 1895
G.S. Harrison (interim) 1895 – 1896
William Draper Lewis 1896 – 1914
William Ephraim Mikell 1914 – 1929
Herbert Funk Goodrich 1929 – 1940
Edwin R. Keedy 1941 – 1945
Earl G. Harrison 1945 – 1948
Owen J. Roberts 1948 – 1951
Paul Brunton (acting) 1951 – 1952
Jefferson Barnes Fordham 1952 – 1970
Bernard Wolfman 1970 – 1075
Louis H. Pollak 1975 – 1978
James O. Freedman 1979 – 1982
Robert Mundheim 1982 – 1989
Colin S. Diver 1989 – 1999
Michael A. Fitts 2000 – 2014
Wendell E. Pritchett (interim) 2014 – 2015
Theodore W. Ruger 2015 – 2023
Sophia Z. Lee 2023 – present