Chairs & Professorships

The Law School’s endowed chairs and professorships have been funded by generous donations from alumni and friends. They recognize faculty who have produced a record of high-quality teaching and scholarship and create an incentive for continuing accomplishments.

Ernest L. Wilkinson Chair: J. Clifton Fleming (Edward L. Kimball)

Guy Anderson Chair: Frederick Gedicks (Robert E. Riggs, Carl S. Hawkins)

Rex E. Lee Chair: Brett G. Scharffs (David A. Thomas, Thomas D. Morgan) 

Ivan Meitus Chair: Kif Augustine-Adams

George Sutherland Chair: (A. Christine Hurt, Rex E. Lee)

Sterling and Eleanor Colton Endowed Chair in Law and Religion: David Moore

Ira A. Fulton Chair: D. Gordon Smith

Robert W. Barker Professorship: Eric Jensen (Richard G. Wilkins)

Hugh W. Colton Professorship: Kevin J Worthen (James R. Rasband) 

Terry L. Crapo Professorship: Clark Asay (Stanley D. Neeleman)

Woodruff J. Deem Professorship: Shima Baradaran Baughman (Michael Goldsmith, D. Gordon Smith)

Marion B. and Rulon A. Earl Professorship: (Brigham Daniels, James D. Gordon)

Glen L. Farr Professorship: (D. Gordon Smith)

Bruce C. Hafen Professorship: Stephanie Plamondon (Lynn D. Wardle)

Wayne M. and Connie C. Hancock Professorship: (David H. Moore)

H. Reese Hansen Professorship: Kristin Gerdy Kyle

Ralph W. Hardy, Jr. Professorship: 

Howard W. Hunter Professorship: Lisa Grow (H. Reese Hansen)

Charles E. Jones Professorship: Carolina Núñez (Kif Augustine-Adams)

Francis R Kirkham Professorship: (Curtis Anderson, Will Clayton, Elysa Dishman, Brook Gotberg, Stephanie Plamondon Bair, Brigham Daniels, Carolina Núñez, Justin Collings, Gladriel Shobe, Michalyn Steele, Benjamin J. Cook, Carl Hernandez III, Jarrod Shobe)

Stanley D. Neeleman Professorship:

Rex J. and Maureen E. Rawlinson Professorship: Thomas R. Lee (A. Christine Hurt)

Stephen L. Richards Professorship: Curtis Anderson (James H. Backman)

Marion G. Romney Professorship: Michalyn Steele (Larry Farmer, Gerald R. Williams)

Edwin M. Thomas Professorship: (Cheryl B. Preston)

Class of 1976 Professorship: