Nancy Staudt | |
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| Vice President of Innovation, RAND Corporation; Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School | |
| Assumed office October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Susan L. Marquis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 4, 1963 |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota School of Law (J.D.) Ohio State University (B.A.) |
| Profession | Dean Lawyer |
| Website | www |
Nancy Christine Staudt (born August 4, 1963)[1] is the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and the Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation.[2] She is a scholar in tax, tax policy, and empirical legal studies.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Nancy Staudt grew up in a large family. She attended St. Vincent-St. Mary Elementary and High School. She had a paper route for many years, delivering the Akron Beacon Journal to families in her small West Akron neighborhood. She worked her way through College and Law School. Staudt received her B.A. from Ohio State University, her J.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Law, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.[3][4]
Staudt began her tenure as Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation and Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of Pardee RAND Graduate School on October 11, 2021.[5]
Previously, she was dean of Washington University School of Law from May 2014 through September 2021,[6] having returned to the school after serving as professor from 2000 to 2006. At Washington University in St. Louis, she chaired the university-Wide Steering Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (2015), tasked with putting together a two-year action plan for the university.[7] Under her leadership, the School of Law rose in ranking to No. 16 among U.S. law schools, according to U.S. News & World Report, and Staudt also led a capital campaign that raised funds to expand the scope of the school's clinical education program, enhance the number of faculty members with named professorships, and increase scholarships for students by millions of dollars.[8]
Prior to returning to St. Louis in 2014, Staudt was vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the USC Gould School of Law and was the inaugural holder of the Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and Public Policy.[9] She also served as the founding co-director of USC's Schwarzenegger Institute of State and Global Policy.[10]
From 2006 to 2011, Staudt was the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.[11] She previously served as associate professor and then professor at University at Buffalo Law School.[12]
Staudt has held visiting professorships at Vanderbilt University, Boston University, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and she has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She has taught classes in Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Estate and Gift Taxation, Property Taxation, State and Local Taxation, and Law & Public Policy.[13]
