16 Facts About Leonard Strickman

Leonard P Strickman was born on April 14,1942 and is an American law professor who served as Dean of three law schools, guiding two of them to various stages of ABA accreditation.

Leonard Strickman's entered his first academic position in 1966 at Boston University School of Law, which he left to spend two years as Minority Counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity, from 1970 to 1972.

Leonard Strickman then returned to teaching law at the Boston College Law School for nine years.

In 1974, Leonard Strickman filed a friend of the court brief in favor of desegregation busing in Detroit.

Leonard Strickman continued to advise various committees of the United States Senate and the city of Boston, and was a visiting scholar on the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law in 1979.

In 1981, Leonard Strickman was appointed Dean and Professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, where he remained for the next nine years, leading the law school from provisional to full American Bar Association accreditation and membership in the Association of American Law Schools.

Leonard Strickman stepped down from the deanship in 1990, returning to teaching as a law professor at NIU after spending the fall 1990 semester as a visiting professor at the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

In 1995, Leonard Strickman commented on the unease UA students had with respect to employment opportunities with the Rose Law Firm, which had come under heavy scrutiny during the Clinton Administration for its ties to Hillary Clinton.

Leonard Strickman expressed doubt that a 1998 effort by critics to curtail Special Prosecutor Ken Starr would be found to have standing.

Leonard Strickman remained at UA for eight years, during which time he spent six years on the ABA Accreditation Committee.

Leonard Strickman was one of two front-runners considered for the deanship of the Detroit College of Law in 2000.

In 2000, Leonard Strickman was selected to lead the newly-established Florida International University College of Law, taking office in January, 2001 and helping to position the school to appeal to the region's Hispanic population and to blue-collar families not necessarily able to afford to attend private law schools in the area.

Leonard Strickman successfully guided the law school to provisional accreditation at the earliest possible time, in August 2004, and to full accreditation in December 2006.

Leonard Strickman weighed in on the question again four years later, with a letter to the UMass trustees again questioning the financial feasibility of the proposed effort.

Leonard Strickman stepped down from the deanship at FIU in 2009, remaining at the school as a professor.

Leonard Strickman married Danielle Dana of Newton, Massachusetts on June 30,1968.