Brad Toben, the current longest-serving law school dean, will step down in July and return to the Baylor University School of Law faculty. This change was announced about a month before the American Bar Association posted a public notice of noncompliance for the lack of faculty diversity at the school.
The university said the two are not related.
“Dean Toben has had a profound impact on Baylor Law,” said Nancy Brickhouse, provost at Baylor University. “Baylor’s Law School is largely the product of the team Brad has created and cultivated for decades – and it is a very healthy law school.”
Toben took over as dean in 1991. During the past 30 years, only a handful of deans have served as long. The typical dean serves for about five years.
Toben has hired approximately 90% of the Baylor faculty and staff in the law school and oversaw the construction of the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center, a building that sits across the river from the university’s football stadium. He also raised the school’s endowment from less than $1 million to more than $180 million.
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