After 21 years, Dean Verna Williams is leaving the College of Law. Yesterday we celebrated all of her wonderful accomplishments and thanked her for her leadership. It has been my pleasure and privilege to have served with Dean Williams at UC Law for over a decade,working first with her when she was a faculty colleague and then as dean. Whether as a faculty member, co-director of the Judge Nathaniel Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, or dean, Dean Williams has continually demonstrated her care for students and colleagues even during the most difficult times. She helped to heal the College of Law and shepherded us through COVID and a new building. Truly, she will be missed.

Learn more about Dean Verna Williams

Scholarship

Dean Williams Scholarship (Cincinnati Law Scholarship Repository)

Dean Verna Williams in Her Own Words (Selected Video Interviews and Remarks)

2021 Cincinnati NAACP Wright-Overstreet Memorial Award: Verna L. Williams

2020 YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, Verna L. Williams

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Making Black History, Verna Williams

Local 12, Making Black History: Verna Williams Inspires as First Black Dean of UC College of Law

Black Pre-Law Talks: Verna L. Williams, Esq., Dean, University of Cincinnati College of Law, The 15th Annual National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair 2019, Columbia Law School, New York, New York

Interview with a Law School Dean, Prelaw Magazine, National Jurist

Cincinnati Bar Association, 10-Minute Mentoring: The Future of Legal Education with Dean Verna Williams