Department Directory

Telephone: 717-240-5214

JEFFREY A. DODGE, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
      Email: jad6742@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5247

PAMELA R. KNOWLTON, Registrar
      Email: prk5@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5212

MELISSA WALTERS, Administrative Support Assistant
     Email: mbw5955@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5244

LOUISE HALLIDAY, Externship Program Coordinator
     Email: lvh5648@psu.edu

Telephone: 717-240-5209

GISELLE SANTIBAÑEZ-BANIA, Assistant Dean for Academic and Student Services
     Email:  gps5491@psu.edu •  Telephone: 717-240-5015  •  Schedule a Meeting

TITICHIA M. JACKSON, Director of Academic Success and Bar Passage and Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: tmj5510@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5264  •  Schedule a Meeting

KALENE FAIRCLOTH, Assistant Director of Student Services
     Email: kmr21@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5104

MELISSA WALTERS, Administrative Support Assistant
     Email: mbw5955@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5244

Email: dickinsonlaw@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5207 

BEKAH SAIDMAN-KRAUSS, Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid
      Email: ras1075@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3533

REBECCA M. SCHREIBER, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
      Email: rms822@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5297

KRISTIN L. THOMAS, Admissions Officer
     Email: klt269@psu.edu    •   Telephone: 717-240-5228

Email: DickinsonLawAlum@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5206

TAWANDA STALLWORTH, Antiracist Development Institute Program Manager
     Email: ths5226@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5289

SERENA HERMITT, Antiracist Development Institute Education Program Coordinator
     Email: sfh5859@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5128

Telephone: 717-240-5000

KARLISMA R. SOUDERS, Director of Business Services
      Email: krs8@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5220

Email: lawcareers@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5201

LAURA H. WILLIAMS, Associate Dean for Administration
      Email: lhw10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5218

THOMAS S. LEE, Director of Career Services
      Email: thomas.lee@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3528

ROSALIND LISTER, Assistant Director of Career Services
     Email: rbl5457@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5236

CAROL HALL, Administrative Support Assistant
     Email: clm117@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5105

Email: marketing@dickinsonlaw.psu.edu •  Telephone: 717-240-5005

DEVAN DRABIK-FREY, Director of Marketing and Communications
     Email: dfd5456@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5293

ELLEN HANNA, Marketing and Communications Specialist and Assistant Director, Enrollment Marketing
     Email: egh5272@psu.edu  •   Telephone: 717-241-3539

TONI M. FITZGERALD, Senior Copywriter
     Email: tmf5868@psu.edu

JUSTIN M. KULP, Senior Creative Specialist
     Email: jmk40@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5211

SHERRY L. WHITLOCK, Multimedia Specialist
      Email: syw5@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5251

Telephone: 717-240-5208

DANIELLE M. CONWAY, Dean
     Email: dzc5647@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5208

BENITA F. SMITH, Executive Assistant
      Email: bfs5502@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5268

Telephone: 717-240-5206

BRETT CONWAY, Assistant Director of Development
     Email: bcc5399@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3599

ROBERT M. ACKERMAN, Professor of Law, Emeritus
     Email: bxa9@psu.edu

JAMES R. FOX, Professor of Law, Emeritus
      Email: jqf7@psu.edu

CECILY A.H. GIARDINA, Associate Law Librarian, Emerita
     Email: chg3@psu.edu

PETER G. GLENN, Dean, Emeritus
     Email: pgg1@psu.edu

CHRISTINE H. KELLETT, Professor of Law, Emerita
      Email: chk3@psu.edu

LESLIE M. MACRAE, Professor of Law, Emeritus
      Email: lmm21@psu.edu 

CAMILLE C. MARION, Professor of Law, Emerita
     Email: ccm7@psu.edu

MICHAEL A. MOGILL, Professor of Law, Emeritus
     Email: mam27@psu.edu

GAIL A. PARTIN, Law Librarian, Emerita and Associate Dean, Emerita
      Email: gap6@psu.edu

THOMAS M. PLACE, Professor of Law, Emeritus
     Email: tmp5@psu.edu

MARK W. PODVIA, Associate Law Librarian, Emeritus and Archivist, Emeritus
      Email: mwp3@psu.edu

MARY KAYE POLACHECK, Writing Specialist, Emerita
     Email: mkp3@psu.edu

ROBERT E. RAINS, Professor of Law, Emeritus
      Email: rer10@psu.edu

JANE RIGLER, Professor of Law, Emerita
      Email: jxr47@psu.edu

JUDY L. SWARTHOUT, Associate Law Librarian, Emerita
      Email: jsx2@psu.edu

LAUREL S. TERRY, Professor of Law, Emerita and H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law, Emerita
     Email: lst3@psu.edu

LAURA AX-FULTZ, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
      Email: lja10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3541

LARRY CATÁ BACKER, W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law and International Affairs
      Email: lcb11@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-3640

GOPAL BALACHANDRAN, Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Appellate & Post-Conviction Services Clinic; and Director, Externships Program
      Email: egzb39@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-5946

SUSAN BARDO, Director, Family Law Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
      Email: seb127@psu.edu

WILLIAM B. BARKER, Distinguished Professor of Law and Polisher Family Faculty Scholar
     Email: wbb3@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5263

MANDEE B. BAUMER, Associate Professor of Legal Writing
      Email: mbb19@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-4510

BRENDAN BERNICKER, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
      Email: bvb5364@psu.edu

STANLEY M. BRAND, Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government and On-site Director, Semester-in-Washington Program
     Email: smb39@psu.edu

WILLIAM E. BUTLER, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law
     Email: web15@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5227

NICOLE CHONG, Associate Dean and Professor of Legal Writing
     Email: nrc10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-4232

JAMISON E. COLBURN, Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
     Email: jec38@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8965

LANCE COLE, Professor of Law, Honorable W. Richard and Mary M. Eshelman Faculty Scholar, and Director, Center for Government Law and Public Policy Studies
     Email: lxc24@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5215

KATRICE BRIDGES COPELAND, Professor of Law
     Email: klb51@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-0406

JULIE TEDJESKE CRANE, Professor of Legal Research and Assistant Law Librarian
     Email: jmt1@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5229

JONATHAN D’SILVA, Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Happy Valley LaunchBox 
     Email: jmd7899@psu.edu

YLLI DAUTAJ, Visiting Associate Professor
     Email: yud89@psu.edu

ANGELA R. DEAN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: ard6303@psu.edu  •  Telephone: 717-241-3514

JEFFREY A. DODGE, Assistant Professor of Law and Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar
     Email: jad6742@psu.edu  •  Telephone: 717-240-5247  •  Schedule a Meeting

KEITH ELKIN, Associate Dean for Academic Success and Professor of Legal Skills
     Email: kue2@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-9035

JILL C. ENGLE, Professor of Clinical Law
     Email: jne2@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-5047

JEFFREY ERICKSON, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Sustainable Development Projects Clinic; and Professor of Legal Writing
     Email: jme121@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-5046

TONYA M. EVANS, Professor of Law
     Email: tme5309@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5000

MICHAEL FOREMAN, Director, Civil Rights Appellate Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law
      Email: mlf25@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-3832

AMY C. GAUDION, Associate Professor of Law
     Email: amy.gaudion@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5216

GARY S. GILDIN, Emeritus Dean; Professor of Law; Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy; Director, Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy
     Email: gsg2@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5238

RONNIE R. GIPSON JR., Visiting Associate Professor of Law
     Email: rrg5319@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3518

PATRICK J. GLEN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: pjg5641@psu.edu

DERMOT M. GROOME, Professor of Law and Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar
     Email: dmg32@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3512

JENNY HAM, Reference and Information Services Librarian and Professor of Legal Research
      Email: uh1421@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-0885

ABI HASSEN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: abihassen@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5138

CHRISTOPHER S. HAVASY, Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: czh5904@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3509

JAMES W. HOUCK, Vice Admiral, JAG Corps, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs
      Email: jwh32@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-4294

TITICHIA M. JACKSON, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Academic Success and Bar Passage
     Email: Titichia.Jackson@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5264

LUCY JOHNSTON-WALSH, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Children’s Advocacy Clinic and Center on Children and the Law
     Email: ljj12@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-243-2968

NICHOLAS KAHN-FOGEL, Professor of Law
     Email: nak5441@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5147

EILEEN M. KANE, Professor of Law
      Email: emk17@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-3166

JULIA Y. LEE, Professor of Law
      Email: jyl10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-2235

DARYL LIM, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Founding Director, Intellectual Property and Innovation Initiative; and co-hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State University
     Email: dfl5478@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3537

JOHN E. LOPATKA, A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law
      Email: jel28@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-7030

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF, Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic
     Email: mdm5849@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3521

TIYANJANA MALUWA, H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and Professor of Law
      Email: tum2@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8971

ANDREA J. MARTIN, Assistant Professor of Law
     Email: amm7370@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5288

JUD MATHEWS, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; Affiliate Professor, School of International Affairs
      Email: jcm41@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-4285

REBECCA A. MATTSON, Head of Faculty and Research Services and Professor of Legal Research
      Email: ram6023@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-2239

ANDREA M. MATWYSHYN, Associate Dean for Innovation and Technology; Founding Faculty Director, Penn State PILOT Lab; Founding Faculty Director, Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity; Professor of Law and Engineering Policy; Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Program, College of the Liberal Arts
      Email: andreamm@psu.edu

ADAM I. MUCHMORE, Professor of Law;Affiliate, Center for Health Care and Policy Research; Affiliate, Penn State Initiative on Law, Policy, and Engineering
      Email: muchmore@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8972

BRENT E. NEWTON, Practitioner in Residence
      Email: ben5098@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5143

KATHERINE C. PEARSON, Professor of Law and Arthur L. and Sandra S. Piccone Faculty Scholar
     Email: kcp4@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5219

SAMANTHA J. PRINCE, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Analysis and Writing
     Email: sjp15@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5286

JAMES M. PUCKETT, Professor of Law
      Email: Professor of Law   •   Telephone: 814-867-2064

MAE C. QUINN, Professor of Law
     Email: mcq2@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5006

MARIE T. REILLY, Professor of Law
      Email: mtr12@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-7033

MEGAN A. RIESMEYER, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Law Clinic
     Email: mam941@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-243-2968

VICTOR ROMERO, Interim Dean, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs; Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty Scholar; and Professor of Law
      Email: vcr1@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8989

STEPHEN F. ROSS, Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law; Executive Director, Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society
      Email: sfr10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8995

SHAAKIRRAH R. SANDERS, Associate Dean for Antiracism and Critical Pedagogy, Professor of Law, and Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar
     Email: srs6178@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3557

BETHANY N. SCHOLS, Executive Director, Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity and Assistant Professor of Clinical Law
      Email: bqs5768@psu.edu

GEOFFREY R. SCOTT, Professor of Law; Director, Arts, Sports and Entertainment Law Clinic; and Affiliate Professor, College of Arts and Architecture
      Email: grs6@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-6878

RICHARD G. SETTGAST, Director, Indigent Criminal Justice Trial Clinic; Director, LL.M. Legal Writing, Research, and Analysis; and Associate Clinical Professor of Law
      Email: rgs920@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-2780

TOM SHARBAUGH, Professor of Practice and Director, Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic
      Email: tjs53@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-4543

MARTIN SKLADANY, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
     Email: mus67@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3538

SABRINA SONDHI, Director, Law Library and Professor of Legal Research
      Email: szs7112@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5294

EMILY SPOTTSWOOD, Visiting Professor of Law
      Email: efs5685@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3530

THERESA K. TARVES, Associate Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research and Director, Legal-Tech Virtual Lab
      Email: tkb115@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-863-6861

SAMUEL C. THOMPSON JR., Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law; and Director, Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions
      Email: sct13@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-9029

MICHELE VOLLMER, Associate Dean, Clinics and Experiential Learning; Director, Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic; and Clinical Professor of Law
      Email: mrv3@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-867-2805

SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
      Email: ssw11@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-3823

SARAH J. WILLIAMS, Associate Professor of Law
     Email: sjw6018@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5295

HANNAH WISEMAN, Professor of Law; Professor and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; and Institutes of Energy and the Environment Co-funded Faculty
      Email: hqw5351@psu.edu

SAMUEL WISEMAN, Professor of Law
      Email: svw5786@psu.edu

MEGAN WRIGHT, Professor of Law, Medicine, Sociology, and Bioethics; Affiliate Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute, College of the Liberal Arts; and Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Program, College of the Liberal Arts
      Email: msw331@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 814-865-8957

Telephone: 717-240-5205

BRENDA K. GARLAND, Administrative Support Assistant
      Email: bkg19@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5270

AMY SHIVELY, Administrative Support Coordinator
    Email: aan106@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5234

Telephone: 717-240-5002

DORIS L. ORNER, Chief Financial Officer
      Email: dlo3@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5284

JESSICA L. BURD, Assistant to the Financial Officer and Bursar
      Email: jlb5055@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5101

DAVID BEARDSLEY, Regional Human Resources Strategic Partner
     Email: dab6030@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-948-6004

Email: DickinsonLawIT@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5008

SETH M. McGEORGE, Director of Instructional and Information Technology
      Email: smm346@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5008

RYAN C. COOK, IT Generalist, System and Web Administration
     Email: rcc5218@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5008

THOMAS P. DENNIS, Multimedia Specialist
      Email: tpd1@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5298

LINDA M. EVANS, Senior IT Training Specialist
     Email: lme11@psu.edu    •   Telephone: 717-240-5008

IAN H. ULSH, IT Consultant
     Email: ihu1@psu.edu    •   Telephone: 717-240-5008

Email: dickinsonlawLLM@psu.edu  •  Telephone: 717-240-5207

JEFFREY A. DODGE, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International and Graduate Education
     Email: jad6742@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5247

ANTHONY OGDEN, Director of Graduate, International, and Online Programs
     Email: aco3@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3532

AMY J. McMURDY, Part-time Educational Program Specialist
     Email: ajm9647@psu.edu

Telephone: 717-243-2968

LUCY JOHNSTON-WALSH, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Children’s Advocacy Clinic
      Email: ljj12@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-243-2968

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF, Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic
      Email: mdm5849@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3521

MEGAN A. RIESMEYER, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Law Clinic
      Email: mam941@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-243-2968

TRISHA S. PROSSER, Administrative Support Coordinator
     Email: tsp14@psu.edu   •    Telephone: 717-240-5204

Email: DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5267

LAURA AX-FULTZ, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
      Email: lja10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-241-3541

SABRINA SONDHI, Director, Law Library and Assistant Law Librarian; Professor of Legal Research
      Email: szs7112@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5294

JULIE TEDJESKE CRANE, Professor of Legal Research and Assistant Law Librarian
     Email: jmt1@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5229

MEGAN BRAUGHT, Access Services Manager
     Email: mkb64@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5012

JONATHAN W. HINDMAN, Collections Services Manager
     Email: jwh5116@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5225

DIANE L. SHELTON, Acquisitions and Budget Specialist
     Email: dvs5930@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5258

Telephone:  717-240-5260

BISHNU BASTOLA, HVAC Maintenance Mechanic
     Email: bjb6652@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5260

KEN R. BROUGH, Campus Technician A, Heating and Ventilating
      Email: krb10@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5260

ELLEN O’CONNELL, Maintenance Worker, Utility
      Email: ejo5164@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5260

SUSAN OTT, Housekeeper
     Email: smo5647@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-226-0968

GARY L. VINCENT, Maintenance Worker, Utility
      Email: gkv5066@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-240-5260

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LIEUTENANT CRAIG WAGNER
     Email: caw44@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-422-0936

OFFICER MICHAEL BOND (3 to 11 p.m.)
     Email: mcb6331@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-422-0936

OFFICER DIRK HOUGH (7 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
     Email: dth12@psu.edu   •   Telephone: 717-422-0936

PENN STATE POLICE DISPATCH
     Telephone: 814-863-1111 (from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.)