Areen, Judith

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Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Family Law
Profession:
Higher Education and the Law
Family Law
Constitutional Law
Regions and States of Practice:
DC, South
Legal Education:
Yale Law School, 1969
Other Education:
Cornell University (1966)
Positions During Her Career:
Director of the Federal Legal Representation Project in the Office of Management and Budget (1977-1980)
General Counsel to President Carter's Reorganization Project
Special Counsel to the White House Task Force on Regulatory Reform
Faculty member at Georgetown University (1972-1989)
Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs (1989-2004)
Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center(1989-2004)
President of the Association of American Law Schools (2006)
Member of the American Law Institute
Director of the Pro Bono Institute
Member of the Council of the Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association
On the Board of Trustees of Cornell University
Governor of the District of Columbia Bar
Consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences
On the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense on Women in the Services
Interim Dean and Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (2010-present)
Firsts:
Female Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center (1989)
Accomplishments:
Received the Janet Reno Torchbearer Award of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2007)
Selected Dean of the Year by Equal Justice Works (2003)
Named one of the hundred leading lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal (1991 and 1994)


Further Research Materials

References:
Judith C. Areen
Judith C. Areen, Georgetown Law, available at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&ID=211
Professor and Dean Emerita Areen Named Interim Dean
Kara Tershel, Professor and Dean Emerita Areen Named Interim Dean (December 23, 2009), available at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/December.23.2009.html
A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States
Professor Cunnea and Lisa Small, A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States. March 8, 1998.
Donna Prokop, First Woman is Named Dean of Georgetown Law Center, San Francisco Banner Daily Journal, February 17, 1989