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Leonard P. Strickman
Dean and Professor of Law
305-348-1118 (phone)
305-348-1159 (fax)
strickman@fiu.edu

Dean Leonard P. Strickman graduated from the Yale Law School where he had been a member of the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. His first academic position was a member of the law faculty at Boston University. He left there to serve as Minority Counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity.

After two years in that position, Dean Strickman returned to law teaching at the Boston College Law School, where he served on the faculty for nine years. He then became Dean and Professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law for nine years, during which time he lead the law school from provisional to full accreditation of the American Bar Association and to membership in the Association of American Law Schools.

During six of the eight years, he served as Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, he also served as member of the Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association. During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, he also chaired fifteen accreditation site visits for the ABA.

He joined Florida International University in January, 2001, as a professor and the founding dean of the FIU College of Law. Dean Strickman and his wife, Danielle, have two children: Andrew, who is a journalist and website developer in San Francisco; and Tami, who is a lawyer and an Assistant State's Attorney in Chicago.

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