Milestone Appointment at the University of Maryland
Phoebe Haddon was named the ninth dean of the University of Maryland School of Law. She is the first African American to lead the law school in its 185-year history. Haddon will take over as dean on July 1. The latest data from the American Bar Association shows that blacks make up 13.6 percent of the students at the University of Maryland School of Law. There are only three law schools in the country at predominantly white universities with a higher percentage of black students.
Haddon is currently a professor at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has served on the Temple faculty since 1981. Previously, she was an attorney for the prestigious Washington law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
Haddon is a graduate of Smith College. She earned her law degree at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she was the editor of theDuquesne Law Review.
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