The University of Rochester’s Board of Trust-
ees named Joel Seligman as the University’s 10th president. Seligman, Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor and dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, will take offi ce July 1, 2005. Seligman will succeed Thomas H. Jackson, who has served as Rochester’s president since 1994.

“In multiple dimensions, Joel Seligman shows himself to be a person of remarkable vision, someone who can lead a national research university like ours toward its greatest potential,” said G. Robert Witmer Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees. “As law school dean at Washington University and previously at the University of Arizona, his energy and accomplishments have been nothing short of astonishing. “Seligman, 54, has been dean at the Washington University School of Law since 1999. A 1971 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University School of Law in 1974, he served on the law faculty of Northeastern University (1977–83), George Washington University (1983–86), and the University of Michigan (1986–95). He was named dean of the University of Arizona College of Law in 1995.

“I am delighted to accept the opportunity to serve the University of Rochester and to live in the city of Rochester. The University of Rochester is a national institution with a well-deserved reputation for outstanding scholarship and wonderful teaching. In recent years, under the inspired leadership of Tom Jackson, the ndergraduate program and the Medical Center have been strikingly strengthened. I have been so impressed by the enthusiasm, collegiality, and dedication of the faculty, administration, students, and trustees I have met! I am honored to join you.”

Seligman and his wife, Friederike, have two children, Andrea, 20, and Peter, 18.

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