DEAN, FOWLER SCHOOL OF LAW, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
WHY: Going on six years as dean of school named after OC500 member Dale Fowler. Also serves as Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law.
RECENT: Keynote speaker at Business Journal’s General Counsel of the Year ceremony in November 2019.
NOTABLE: Previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, where he taught Property, Land Use, Legislation, Urban Redevelopment, and Professional Sports Law—with Major League Baseball Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig. Holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review.
2020 HOBBY: “I bought an arcade game that has more than 300 video games from the 1980s on it, so I became an expert at Ms. Pacman, Galaga, and Dig Dug, among others.”