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Law 2025: PERDUE, WENDY COLLINS
DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Law 2025: PERDUE, WENDY COLLINS
DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Dean of the University of Richmond School of Law since 2011, Perdue has blazed plenty of trails, as she is among the 42% of law school deans who are female. In 2024, Virginia Lawyers Weekly inducted Perdue into its Hall of Fame, and in March, she announced she would step down as dean at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Perdue plans to remain on faculty as a professor of law following a sabbatical.
A graduate of Wellesley College and the Duke University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of its law journal, Perdue clerked for former Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy when he was a judge for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was an associate at Washington, D.C., firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) before entering academia.
Prior to joining the University of Richmond, Perdue was an associate dean and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She also served as president of the Association of American Law Schools for a one-year term in 2018.
