nationality work_institutions field birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
united states university of florida legal 1953 dean of university of florida levin college of law robert jerry
 robert jerry university of michigan
robert jerry

robert h. jerry , ii -lrb- born 1953 -rrb- is the former dean of the university of florida 's levin college of law , serving from 2003 to 2014 .
he succeeded jon mills , who stepped down and returned to the university of florida 's law faculty .
jerry became dean of the college in july 2003 .
jerry earned a b.s. `` magna cum laude '' from indiana state university in 1974 .
jerry graduated `` cum laude '' from the university of michigan law school , where he was a member of the `` michigan law review '' .
in 1977 .
jerry served as a law clerk for judge george e. mackinnon of the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit from 1977 to 1978 .
before jerry became the dean of the levin college of law in 2003 , he held the floyd r. gibson missouri endowed professorship at the university of missouri-columbia school of law in columbia , missouri -lrb- 1998 -- 2003 -rrb- .
from 1994 to 1998 , he was the herbert herff chair of excellence at the cecil c. humphreys school of law at the university of memphis .
he also served as the dean of the university of kansas school of law from 1989 to 1994 , where he was also a member of the faculty from 1981 to 1994 .
he practiced law with the firm of barnes , hickam , pantzer & boyd in indianapolis , indiana from 1978 to 1981 .
in august 2013 , jerry announced he would be stepping down as dean at the end of the ' 13 - '14 school year in -lrb- may 2014 -rrb- .
he will remain on the faculty .
jerry teaches a course on insurance law and is the author of `` understanding insurance law '' , published by lexisnexis .
