Jerry Anderson

Jerry Anderson has been named dean of Drake University Law School, effective July 1. Anderson, the Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of Law at Drake, succeeds Ben Ullem, who is currently serving a two-year term as dean of the law school. Anderson said he hopes to enhance the 150-year-old Drake Law School’s visibility and profile on the national scale as well as locally. Anderson earned a bachelors degree in Business Administration at the University of Kansas and a law degree at Stanford Law School. Before joining Drake Law School in 1991, he taught at the Catholic University of America Columbus Law School and University of Oklahoma Law School. While at Drake Law School, Anderson has twice been selected as the Leland Forrest Outstanding Professor of the Year, and he served as associate dean from 1996 to 2001. His areas of expertise include administrative law, environmental law, natural resources law and property law. Click here to read a biographical profile.