American University Washington College of Law

Web Address: http://www.wcl.american.edu/
Phone Number: 202.274.4004
Address: 4801 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016

Current Dean

Heather Hughes (Interim)
2024-07-01 to Current

Previous Deans (populated by deans in the database)

Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.
2021-07-01 to 2024-07-01
Robert Dinerstein
2020-07-01 to 2021-07-01
Camille A. Nelson
2016-07-25 to 2020-07-01
Claudio M. Grossman
1995-07-01 to 2016-07-24

Deans Who Attended American University Washington College of Law

Name
Degree
Year of Graduation
Anthony W. Crowell
J.D.
1997
Marisa S. Cianciarulo
J.D.
1998

Previous Deans
(information provided by American University Washington College of Law)

Name
Tenure as Dean
Elliott Milstein
1994 - 1995
Claudio Grossman (Acting)
1993 - 1994
Elliott Milstein (Acting)
1988 - 1993
Frederick R. Anderson
1985 - 1988
Thomas Buergenthal
1980 - 1985
Robert Goldman (Acting)
1979 - 1980
Nicholas Kittrie
1977 - 1979
Gordon A. Christenson
1971 - 1977
Robert E. Goostree (Acting)
1970 - 1971
B.J. Tennery
1967 - 1970
John Sherman Myers
1956 - 1967
David R. Bookstaver
1951 - 1956
Horatio R. Rogers
1947 - 1951
Helen Arthur-Adair
1943 - 1947
Grace Hays Riley
1926 - 1943
Laura Hopkins Halsey
1925 - 1926
Emma M. Gillett (Acting) *
1924 - 1925
Elizabeth Harris *
1923 - 1924
Emma M. Gillett (Founder)
1914 - 1923
Ellen Spencer Mussey (Founder) *
1898 - 1914

* Deceased