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DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW, RICHMOND
DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW, RICHMOND
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
In October 2023, the University of Richmond celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first woman graduating from Richmond Law — only 25 years after U.S. women were allowed to serve on juries.
Times have changed. In 2023, 39% of all U.S. lawyers were women, according to the American Bar Association. Today, 55% of all law students at the University of Richmond are women. “It’s a tale of amazing progress,” Perdue said at the event.
Dean of the University of Richmond School of Law since 2011, Perdue has blazed plenty of trails herself. She’s among the 43% of law school deans who are female. In May, Virginia Lawyers Weekly inducted Perdue into its Hall of Fame.
A graduate of Wellesley College and the Duke University School of Law, Perdue clerked for former Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy when he was a judge for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She was an associate at the Washington, D.C., firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) before entering academia.
Perdue joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1982 and later became an associate dean.
