Robert Jerry
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| Robert Jerry | |
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| Born | 1953 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Field | Legal |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Known for | Being the Dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law |
Robert H. Jerry, II (born 1953) is Dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He succeeded Jon Mills, dean from 1999 to 2003 (interim dean, 1999-2001), who stepped down and returned to UF's faculty. Jerry became Dean of the College in July of 2003.[1]
Jerry earned a B.S. from Indiana State University with the magna cum laude distinction in 1974. He would then go on to the University of Michigan where he graduated cum laude in 1977. While at the University of Michigan he served on University of Michigan Law Review. From 1977-1978 he was a Law Clerk for the U.S. Circuit Judge George E. MacKinnon for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[2]
Before Jerry became the Dean of the UF College of Law in 2003, he held the Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professorship at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in Columbia, Missouri (1998-2003). From 1994 to 1998, he was the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. He also served as the Dean of the University of Kansas School of Law from 1989 to 1994, where he was also a member of the faculty from 1981 to 1994. [3] He practiced law with the firm of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1978 to 1981.
