Franita Tolson, dean of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Courtesy photo Franita Tolson Appointed as First African American Dean of USC School of Law
Tolson received her juris doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, where she was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and won the Thomas Mulroy Prize for Oral Advocacy in the Hinton Moot Court Competition.
March 28, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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What You Need to Know
- The University of Southern California announced the appointment of Franita Tolson as the new dean for its law school Wednesday.
- Tolson joined USC in 2017, and she also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the political science and international relations department.
- Tolson is known as an election law expert and has testified before Congress on voting rights issues.
The University of Southern California announced the appointment of Franita Tolson as the first African American dean of the university's Gould School of Law, according to a statement issued Wednesday.
Tolson will begin the position Monday, April 1, as the Carl Mason Franklin chair in law. She is the first African American dean at USC Gould and only the second female dean in the school's 123-year history. Tolson has been at USC Law since 2017, serving for the last year as interim dean, and she also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the political science and international relations department at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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