Magill, who currently serves as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia, will assume the Penn Presidency on July 1, 2022. She succeeds Dr. Amy Gutmann who announced last year that she would conclude her tenure as Penn’s President.
Scott Bok, Chair of the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees, today announced that M. Elizabeth Magill, who currently serves as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia, has been nominated by the Executive Committee of the Trustees to serve as the ninth President of the University. The full Board of Trustees will vote on Magill’s nomination at its Stated Meeting on March 4.
Magill will assume the Penn Presidency on July 1, 2022. She succeeds Dr. Amy Gutmann, who announced last year that she would conclude her tenure as Penn’s President after serving in that role since 2004.
Magill was raised in Fargo, North Dakota and went on to receive a B.A. in History from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She became EVP and Provost at UVA in 2019. Prior to her tenure at UVA, Magill served for seven years as the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of the Stanford Law School. Before joining Stanford, she was on the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law for 15 years, serving as vice dean, the Joseph Weintraub–Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law, and Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor.
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