Burnele Venable Powell, a 1973 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, has been named Dean of the University of South Carolina Law School. Powell is the first African-American dean of South Carolina's law school.

Powell began his legal career in 1973 at the Department of Housing and Urban Development regional counsel's office in Boston, and later was promoted to associate regional counsel. In 1979, he earned an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, and that year joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught from 1979 to 1995, serving as Associate Dean from 1990-93. He then joined the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1995, serving as Dean there until May 2003.

Powell is chair of the American Bar Association Consortium on the Delivery of Legal Services and immediate past chair of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. He is a nationally know authority on legal ethics, and has published widely on topics related to lawyers? professional ethics and federal/state government administration.

Powell assumed his responsibilities in South Carolina at the beginning of this semester in January 2004.

Submitted by on January 22, 2004

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