PHILADELPHIA, PA (KFGO) – The University of Pennsylvania has nominated a Fargo native as its next president.
M. Elizabeth Magill, who once led Sanford University’s law school and now serves as Executive Vice-President and Provost of the University of Virginia, was nominated by the board of trustees’ executive committee as its ninth president. The full board will vote on Magill’s nomination on March 4.
The 56-year old Magill is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.
Magill graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was also a legislative assistant to Senator Kent Conrad for several years after she graduated from Yale University.
Magill is expected to assume the president’s position on July 1.
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