Bob Walsh, who was the dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law from 1989 to 2007, is widely recognized as one of the leaders in legal education in the United States. Besides directing the rise of the law school into national prominence, Bob has been the chairperson of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which is the accrediting authority for all law schools, and has chaired its two major committees, the Accreditation Committee and the Standards Review Committee. He is currently the Vice-President of the American Inns of Court Foundation Board of Trustees and has been a board member of the National Association of Law Placement Foundation Board of Trustees and the ABA Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative Advisory Council. He has also been a vice president of the North Carolina Bar Association and a member of its Board of Governors. Prior to becoming dean at Wake, he was a litigation partner with a law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, a law professor at Villanova University, and an associate with a law firm in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Kathie, have four children.
