May 1, 2022

UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell has announced that Renée McDonald Hutchins, JD, will be the next dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, effective Aug. 1. Hutchins is returning to Maryland Carey Law, where she founded and taught the Appellate and Post-Conviction Advocacy Clinic, as well as traditional doctrinal courses and advanced seminars. Her legal scholarship sits at the intersection of criminal procedure and social science, and she is a leading expert on the Fourth Amendment and criminal appellate practice. She is dean and professor at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law.

Jarrell has also appointed leading heart, vascular, and lung physician-scientist Mark T. Gladwin, MD, as the new dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs. The selection was made after a rigorous national search and is effective Aug. 1. Gladwin is the Jack D. Myers Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and founder of the Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood, and Vascular Medicine Institute.

Learn more about Hutchins here and Gladwin here.