Nancy Hardin Rogers

Age: 59

Current job: Dean, Moritz School of Law, Ohio State University

Political experience: None

Education: B.A., University of Kansas; J.D., Yale Law School

Areas of Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Background: Seven yeats as Dean; two years as Vice Provost for Academic Administration, five years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. After law school, she served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros in Cleveland and practiced law in the Glenville-area office of the Cleveland Legal Aid Society. She began teaching at the Ohio State University College of Law in 1976.

Awards: Ohio State Bar Foundation's Ritter Award in 1998 for outstanding contributions to the administration of justice; the American Arbitration Association's Whitney North Seymour, Sr. Medal in 1990 for outstanding contributions in the dispute resolution field; the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution's Distinguished Service Recognition in 1990; the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution's D'Alemberte-Raven Award in 2002 for outstanding achievements and contributions to the field of dispute resolution; and the Ohio State Bar Association's Ohio Bar Medal in 2008.

Source: Ohio State University Moritz School of Law

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