Cristina Rodriguez has been named the Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A faculty member with the law school for over a decade, Rodríguez currently serves as deputy dean and the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law. Before Yale, she taught at the New York University School of Law. Her scholarship centers on constitutional law and theory, administrative law and process, and immigration law and policy.
Professor Rodríguez received her bachelor’s degree and juris doctorate from Yale and her master’s degree in history from the University of Oxford in England.
Katy Lundell-Stuhr is the new dean of technical programs at Ridgewater College in Minnesota. She has been a faculty member with the college since 2014, currently serving as a massage therapy instructor and program director. Previously, Dr. Lundell-Stuhr operated Lundell Chiropractic Health Center in Granite Falls, Minnesota.
Dr. Lundell-Stuhr is a graduate of South Dakota State University. She holds a doctor of chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Heather Pendleton-Helm is the new dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. Dr. Pendleton-Helm has led the college on an interim basis for the past six months. A faculty member since 2004, Dr. Pendleton-Helm previously served as a program coordinator and chair of the department of applied psychology and counselor education. In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Pendleton-Helm also spent four years as interim director of the university’s Counseling Center.
A graduate of Washington State University, Dr. Pendleton-Helm earned her master’s degree in counseling and her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from the University of Mississippi.