Interim law dean of University of Florida named to permanent role
Merritt McAlister, the interim law dean at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, has been elevated to serve in the dean role on a permanent basis. (Photo from University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Sept. 25 press release)
Merritt McAlister, the interim law dean at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, has been elevated to serve in the dean role on a permanent basis.
“The dean’s leadership is critical to continuing to enhance the college’s stature and extend its influence and impact,” wrote Stuart R. Bell, the president of the University of Florida, in a memo Friday. “I am confident that Dean McAlister is the right leader for that role.”
On the law school faculty since 2018, McAlister, who teaches and writes about federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional law and court administration, was named the interim dean in June 2023. She replaced Laura Rosenbury, who became the president of Barnard College in New York City.
Previously, McAlister spent eight years at King & Spalding, where she became a partner in the law firm’s national appellate practice.
McAlister also clerked for Senior Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta and for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
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