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DEAN AND ARNOLD H. LEON PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, CHARLOTTESVILLE
DEAN AND ARNOLD H. LEON PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Kendrick became the 13th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law on July 1, replacing Risa Goluboff, who stepped down after eight years in the role and will continue to teach at U.Va.
A native of eastern Kentucky, Kendrick graduated from U.Va.’s law school in 2006 and became a member of the faculty two years later after clerking for former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter and for Judge
J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 2017, Kendrick, whose scholarship focuses on freedom of speech and torts, won U.Va.’s All-University Teaching Award. She was also director of the school’s Center for the First Amendment and a special adviser on free expression and inquiry to U.Va.’s provost.
Kendrick was the law school’s vice dean from 2017 to 2021. In the early days of the pandemic, she oversaw the effort to move 139 courses online over eight days. She received her master’s and doctorate in English literature as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford.
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