Susan Westerberg Prager (1942-) became the sixth Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and Executive Director on September 1, 2008. She is an American legal scholar and administrator and was dean of the UCLA School of Law from 1982 to 1998, being one of the first female deans of a law school in the United States. Prager served the longest tenure of any dean in UCLA Law history, and was the first alum to become dean of the UCLA School of Law. During her term at the UCLA School of Law, she became the second woman to serve as the president of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to law school, she worked in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Assembly.
Prager was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in Sloughhouse, California, a small town outside of Sacramento. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University in 1964, and she later received a master's degree in history, also from Stanford, and she served for fourteen years as a trustee of Stanford University. She received her law degree from UCLA and was editor-in-chief of the UCLA Law Review. She practiced law at Powe, Porter & Alphin in Durham, N.C. before returning to the UCLA School of Law faculty where she focused on family law, community property, and historic preservation law. She was also provost of Dartmouth College and president of Occidental College. Early in her career, she worked for a number of legislators, including U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel of California.