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Lolita Buckner Inniss is a distinguished academic leader, scholar, and public servant. She currently serves as the 17th dean of the University of Colorado Law School and holds the title of Provost’s Professor of Law. She is also an affiliate of the University of Colorado Center for African & African American Studies. As Dean, she has worked to advance access and equity for students, met critical instructional needs through the recruitment of one of the most accomplished and largest cohorts of faculty in the school’s history, and overseen one of the largest clinical education gifts ever received by the institution. Dean Inniss is a widely respected legal scholar with a distinguished national and international reputation. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and her prolific body of work includes scores of articles and essays, as well as the acclaimed legal history book The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (Fordham University Press, 2020). Dean Inniss earned an A.B. from Princeton University, a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, an LL.M. with Distinction and a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Canada.