Dr. Susan Landrum has been appointed as the next Assistant Dean for Student Services and Dean of Students at the University of Illinois College of Law, effective August 1, 2022.
Dr. Landrum is a graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and currently serves as Assistant Dean for Academic Success and Professionalism and Professor of Practice at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Shepard Broad College of Law. Prior to joining NSU Law, she had roles as the Assistant Dean for Academic Achievement at St. John’s University School of Law, and the Director of the Office of Academic Achievement at Savannah Law School. Before becoming a law school administrator and educator, Dr. Landrum practiced as an associate attorney at Zieger, Tigges & Little LLP and worked as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Dr. Landrum earned a Ph.D. in history at The Ohio State University and worked as an educator in that field before going to law school. She specialized in the history of U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and space exploration. Among her other positions, she held a faculty fellowship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Dr. Landrum currently serves on the executive board of the American Association of Law Schools Academic Support Section and will be Chair-Elect of the section in the upcoming year. She is the Executive Editor of The Learning Curve, the biannual publication of the AALS Academic Support Section, and she is the author of a blog for law students, Law School Success. She research, writes, and presents in the areas of online and hybrid learning and pedagogy, accessibility for law students with disabilities, and alternative dispute resolution.
Dean Landrum brings a wealth of academic administrative experience, is passionate about working with law students on their academic and professional goals, and considers herself a Midwesterner and self-proclaimed “Big 10 person at heart.”
We look forward to welcoming Dean Landrum to the College of Law community.