Brigadier General Shane Reeves Appointed President of the University of Wyoming

Brigadier General Shane Reeves, dean of the Academic Board of the U.S Military Academy at West Point has been appointed as the 29^th President of the University of Wyoming effective July 2026.  Reeves  holds a Master of Laws in military law from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, a Juris Doctor from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy (USMA). He is admitted to practice law before the Virginia State Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Commissioned in 1996 from USMA, he attending law school in 2003 and transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. As a judge advocate, he served in several legal positions, including chief of legal assistance at Fort Riley, Kansas; brigade judge advocate in the 1st Armored Division in Taji, Iraq; senior trial counsel for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley; professor of international and operational law at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia; and deputy staff judge advocate of Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

Reeves taught for 10 years in USMA's law department.   

University of Tulsa Selects Stacy Leeds, Dean of ASU Law School as its Next President

The University of Tulsa as selected seasoned law school dean Stacy Leeds as its 22^nd President effective July 1, 2026.   She is the first woman permanent president of the University.

Leeds is currently the Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and she previously served as the Dean of Arkansas School of Law. She also served as the Inaugural Vice Chancellor for Economic Development at the University of Arkansas.   She formerly served as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and the Director of Tribal Law and Government Center at KU. Previously, Leeds taught law at the University of North Dakota and served as Director of the Northern Plains Indian Law Center

Leeds served six years as the district judge for the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation and two years as district judge for the Muscogee Nation. She also served as judge for the Kaw Nation, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas. She also served as a justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court.

Stacy Leeds eared her JD from the University of Tulsa School of Law. She also earned an

Another Law School Dean Appointed President - Richard A. Bierschbach

The trend continues with more law deans being appointed as college and university presidents this year.

Wayne State University has elected its law school dean, Richard A. Bierschbach as its President, effective immediately, through June 3, 2030.

Prior to his tenure as dean at Wayne State Law School, he taught at Cardozo School of Law where he also served as Vice Dean.

Before joining academia, Bierschbach clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Between those clerkships, he was a Bristow Fellow in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Solicitor General and an attorney-advisor in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where he represented and advised executive branch agencies across the government on a wide range of legal issues.

Bierschbach worked in the New York offices of three international law firms—Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe—as a member of their Supreme Court and appellate litigation practices.

He earned his JD from the University of Michigan School of Law.