Law alum named dean of UW School of Law
Indiana Law alumna Kellye Testy will become the first female dean in the University of Washington School of Law's 110-year history on Sept. 1, after she was approved by the university's Board of Regents on May 14. She also will be named the James W. Mifflin University Professor.
Testy, JD'91, will leave the Seattle University School of Law, where she has served as dean since 2005, and a professor of law since 1992. She is a leading scholar in the area of corporate governance reform, and lectures across the country in the areas of business and commercial law.
Kellye Testy
"I am honored by this appointment," said Testy. "I look forward to leading the law school to its next level of educational excellence and to leveraging UW's status as one of the top public research universities in the nation to build collaborative partnerships inside and outside the university to address complex issues facing our state, nation, and world."
Indiana Law Dean Lauren Robel said Testy will do a tremendous job in her new role. " I am so delighted and so proud of Kellye," Robel said. "She is already recognized as one of the most effective law school deans in the country. She will bring her incredibly good judgment and devotion to legal education to a strong school."
Testy earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from IU in 1982, and graduated first in her class from the Maurer School of Law, earning summa cum laude honors. She clerked for the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 1991 and 1992.
Testy co-founded Seattle University School of Law's Access to Justice Institute, and founded both the Seattle Journal for Social Justice and the Center on Corporations, Law & Society during her tenure there.
