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Southwestern Law School

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Darby Dickerson serves as President, Dean, and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School since July 2021, where she was awarded tenure upon appointment. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Government from The College of William & Mary and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she was Senior Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, Dickerson clerked for Judge Harry W. Wellford on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced as a litigation associate at Locke Purnell Rain Harrell in Dallas from 1989 to 1995. She began her academic career at Stetson University College of Law in 1995 as Assistant Professor, earning promotion to Associate Professor in 1997, tenure in 2000, and full Professor in 2001. At Stetson, she directed Legal Research and Writing from 1996 to 2004 and held progressive leadership roles including Associate Dean, Vice Dean, Interim Dean, and Dean/Vice President from 2004 to 2011. Subsequently, she was Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law from 2011 to 2016, Dean at The John Marshall Law School from 2016 to 2019, leading its merger into the University of Illinois Chicago, and Inaugural Dean at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law from 2019 to 2021.