Prior to his appointment as the 8 th  President of Golden Gate University  in San Francisco effective November 1, 2025, Brent White served as the chief global officer at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa  and a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law. He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Golden Gate University and vice president for global affairs and dean of global education at the University of Arizona, where he was also a

Former Cornell Law Dean Eduardo Peñalver, currently President of Seattle University (since 2021), has been named President of Georgetown University , effective July 2026. Peñalver graduated from Yale Law School and clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice John Paul Stevens.  In addition to teaching at Cornell Law School, he served on the faculty at Fordham Law School and the University of Chicago School of Law.  He was also a visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School

Continuing a trend in Texas and Florida, another state legislator has been named to lead a University – this time attorney Senator...