SU Law’s Testy leaves for UW
Kellye Testy has taken the deanship at the University of Washington School of Law. Photo courtesy of Seattle U's School of Law.
After conducting a nationwide search and hiring an executive search firm to do it, the University of Washington’s School of Law found its new dean just a few miles south on another campus. In fact, one might say it’s a clean swap: Seattle University took Cameron Dollar from the UW to be its head basketball coach, and the UW has chosen Seattle U’s Law dean, Kellye Testy, to take over its School of Law.
Seattle U Provost Isaiah Crawford announced Testy’s new position today via an e-mail to the university.
“The law school has thrived under her leadership,” Crawford wrote, ”and she leaves us in a strong position to recruit a new dean. ”
Testy became a professor at the Seattle U School of Law in 1992 and took over as dean in February 2005. She is hailed as a “nationally renowned expert on corporate governance.” Testy recently received the Loren Miller Bar Association President’s Award and the King County Bar Association’s Friend of the Legal Profession Award for her work in education and the justice system.
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