DEAN OF PITT LAW SCHOOL TO SPEAK

AT UPT GRADUATION ON APRIL 24

TITUSVILLE, April 6 – David J. Herring, J.D., Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, will present the graduation address at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville’s eighth annual graduation ceremony to be held on Saturday, April 24, at 2:00 p.m. in Henne Auditorium, Broadhurst Science Center.  Forty-five students will be awarded Associate of Arts, Associate of Science and Bachelor of Science in Business Management degrees.

            Herring graduated with highest distinction from the University of Michigan with a B.B.A. in accounting and finance, as well as Magna Cum Laude from Michigan’s Law School.  He was admitted to the State Bar in both Illinois and Pennsylvania.

            Herring has been affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Law since 1990.  Prior to being named Dean in 1999, he served as an assistant professor, associate professor, director of legal clinics, associate dean for academic affairs, professor of law, and interim dean. 

            Before moving to Pittsburgh and joining the University, Herring was supervising attorney in the University of Michigan Child Advocacy Law Clinic, assistant state attorney in the criminal appeals division in Illinois, a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law, and the sole judicial law clerk to Judge William R. Beasley of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Herring was the recipient of the 1998 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at Pitt and the 1997 Children’s Voice Award from the Allegheny County Court-Appointed Special Advocates Program.

He has been published in the University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Family Law Quarterly, Toledo Law Review, and numerous other publications.  In addition, he presented a paper at the Harvard Law School Conference for the Representation of Children, and he designed and conducted training sessions for attorneys in Alabama regarding civil child protection proceedings.

Herring has served as Project Director for several grants, funded by various organizations, including the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, United State Department of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education, Legal Services Corporation and more.

Students and faculty will march to the tunes of bagpipes, played by Eugene Zimmerman, to and from the ceremony.  Twenty-six of the 45 graduates will participate in the ceremony.

            During the graduation ceremony, new members will be inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honors fraternity.  In addition, honors will be awarded to students in Humanities, Natural Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, the Physical Therapist Assistant Program, the Part-Time Student Award, and for Outstanding Student Achievement.

Following the ceremony, a reception will be held for graduates, honorees, family, faculty, staff and friends in the lobby of the Broadhurst Science Center.  The public is invited to attend both graduation and the reception.

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