Susan Duncan (academic administrator)

Duncan is from Louisville, Kentucky.[1] Her father John "Jack" Hanley was an attorney and her mother, Jean Kipp, was a teacher.[1][2] Duncan graduated from the Sacred Heart Academy in 1984.[2] She graduated cum laude from Miami University in 1987 with B.A. in speech communication and a minor in political science.[3] She completed her spring 1986 semester in Luxembourg through the Miami University European Center.[3] She earned a J.D. cum laude at the University of Louisville School of Law in 1991.[3]

Duncan worked as an associate from 1991 to 1992 at Boehl Stopher Graves & Deindoerfer in Louisville, Kentucky.[3] From 1994 to 1996, she was an adjunct professor for legal methods at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.[3] She joined Brandeis School of Law in 1997 as an adjunct professor.[3] She was an adjunct professor of legal studies at Spalding University in 1999.[3] She returned to Brandeis in 1999 as a visiting professor where she was promoted to associate dean of academic affairs and faculty development in 2011 and full professor in 2012.[3] She served as the interim dean from 2012 to 2017.[3] Duncan was one of the top four candidates to become the Brandeis dean but the school eventually selected Colin Crawford.[4] On August 1, 2017, joined the University of Mississippi School of Law as its dean, succeeding interim dean Debbie Bell.[5] She is the first female dean to serve in a non interim capacity at the University of Mississippi School of Law on August 1, 2017.[6][7] She became a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2020.[3] In 2022, served as president of the Scribes legal society.[1]

Duncan is married has six daughters and one son.[1]