11 Facts About Wendell Pritchett

Wendell Eric Pritchett is an American legal scholar and academic.

Wendell Pritchett is currently the James S Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

From February to June 2022, Pritchett served as interim president of the University of Pennsylvania; he is the first Black individual to serve as the university's president.

Pritchett's father, named Wendell Pritchett, was a classical pianist and public school teacher, and his mother Carolyn was a high school English teacher.

Wendell Pritchett grew up in Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to which his family moved in 1967, and attended Friends Select School.

Wendell Pritchett earned a JD from Yale Law School in 1991, and became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar that year.

For five years, from 1997 to 2002, Wendell Pritchett was an assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Wendell Pritchett was a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor from 2001 to 2009, and is the Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the school.

At the time of his appointment, Wendell Pritchett became the first Black Chancellor of the university.

In 2017, Wendell Pritchett was named Provost of the University of Pennsylvania; he served in the role through July 2021.

Wendell Pritchett has written two books and many articles on urban history and policy, especially in the areas of housing, race relations, land use, and economic development.