Janet K. Levit
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Janet K. Levit | |
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| Born | Janet Koven 1948 and 74 years age |
| Other names | Janet Koven Levit, JD, J. K. Levit |
| Occupation(s) | attorney, law professor, university administrator, |
| Years active | 1995 - Present |
| Known for | First woman president of Tulsa University; first woman dean of TU law school |
Janet K. Levit (b. 1948)[a] was the interim President of the University of Tulsa (TU) at Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2013 to 2014. She was named to this position after her predecessor, Dr. Gerard Clancy resigned because of unspecified health issues.
Levit is an attorney living in Tulsa, Oklahoma who is a professor at the Tulsa University (TU) College of Law. She has also served as the first woman to become dean of the law school, as well as provost and vice president of TU. She was appointed Interim President of TU from June 2020 until June 2021, following the sudden resignation of former president Dr. Gerard Clancy.[b]
Education
Janet Levit (nee)Koval enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at [Princeton University], where she earned the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) magna cum laude in 1990, concentrating on Latin American studies. She also edited book reviews and articles for the Yale Journal of International Law.] She then went to Yale University where she earned an M. A. in International Relations and her J.D. from [Yale Law School], both in May 1994.[c] She was employed at the Export-Import Bank of the United States from August 1998 until April 2000.[1] After graduating from Yale, she served as a law clerk for Judge Stephanie K. Seymour and for the Chair of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.[2]
Career at Tulsa University
In 1994-95, Dr. Koven interned with [Stephanie K. Seymour],[d], and for the Chair of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. </ref name = "TUCV"/> Levit was director of the Tulsa University (TU) College of Law's inaugural Summer Institute in International Law in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School during the spring 2007 term.[2]
Dean of Law School
Levit was appointed Dean of the TU Law School effective July 18, 2008, becoming the first woman to hold that post. A news release noted that this event had made here the first woman to head any of the three law schools in Oklahoma on a permanent basis.[3]
While Levit was serving as Dean, the law school experienced a number of advancements:
* Improved its by the U.S. News & World Report rankings of U. S. law schools from the fourth quartile to the second quartile;
* Improved operation of its Office of Professional Development to help its new graduates launch their careers, putting the TU Law School among the top 25 such schools in the U.S.;
* Developed an online Masters' program that grew to nearly a quarter of the school's enrollment .Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
On September 18, 2014, President Steadman Upham announced that Janet Levit intended to step down as Dean of the law school and return to the faculty as a full-time teacher at the end of the 2014-2015 school year. The announcement went on to itemize marating ranking jor achievements by the law school during her tenure as Dean. [4] Levit's successor, announced on January 2016 in the TU newspaper The Collegian, was Lyn Entzeroth, who had joined the TU faculty in 2002, and had been the Associate Dean of Academic Development at the law school for the previous three years.[5][
Promotion to Vice President and Provost
After Gerard Clancy replaced Upham as TU president, Janet Levit's plan to take a sabbatical year and then to return to simply teaching law apparently took a detour. First, she had been promoted up in rank to Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. [e] In May 2018, Clancy offered her an opportunity to serve as provost Then, she replaced Roger Blais, her predecessor as provost and a 40-year veteran with TU.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). Very soon she set up the Provost’s Program Review Committee (PPRC)[6] [f]
Awards and Honors
- Anna C. Roth Legacy Award
- TU Law Hall of Fame
Notes
- ^ also known as Janet Koval, and Janet Koval Levit.
- ^ Dr. Levit is still recognized as the first female president of TU. She was also the first woman dean of the TU College of Law when appointed to that position in 2014.
- ^ In the fall of 1992, she was a teaching assistant at Yale Law School.
- ^ then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[2]
- ^ This position put her in charge of developing TU's 2017–2022 Strategic Plan.
- ^ The PPRC was, "... “tasked with reviewing all academic programs and evaluating each one across a number of dimensions, including their contribution to the university’s core mission, their trajectory, their outcomes and their financial sustainability.”[6]
References
- ^ Alumni US. Yale Law School 2014-2015 Alumni. "Janet Levin."
- ^ a b c "University of Tulsa Faculty and Adjuncts: Janet Levit, JD". Undated. Accessed April 7, 2022.
- ^ story/ news/2008/07/18/janet-levit-becomes-dean-at-tu-law-school/61566039007/ "Janet Levit becomes dean at TU law school." The Oklahoman July 18, 2008. Accessed April 8, 2022.
- ^ [https://utulsa.edu/janet-levit-to-step-down-as-dean-of-tu-college-of-law/ University of Tulsa. "Janet Levit to step down as Dean of TU College of Law." September 18, 2014. Accessed April 8, 2022.
- ^ [https:// tucollegian.org/lyn-entzeroth-to-take-over-college-of-law/ "Lyn Entzeroth to take over College of Law." January 26, 2015. Accessed April 8, 2022.]
- ^ a b Howland, Jacob, "Storm Clouds Over Tulsa." City Journal. April 17, 2019. Accessed April 8, 2022.
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See also
*Living people *Oklahoma attorneys *People from Tulsa, Oklahoma *Yale University alumni *Princeton University alumni *Tulsa University faculty