who was first female dean of harvard
First Woman Is Appointed As Dean of Harvard Law. Elena Kagan, a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton and onetime clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court, has been appointed dean of the Harvard University Law School, Lawrence H. Summers, the university president, announced yesterday. Ms. Kagan, 42, will be the first woman to lead the law school in its 186-year history.