Phoebe Haddon became chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden in 2014; she
was previously dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey
School of Law. She has been honored nationally as one of the most
influential people in legal education and serves on many boards and
committees. She previously was a distinguished faculty member at the
Temple University Beasley School of Law and is an accomplished scholar
on constitutional and tort law.
Prior to joining the Rutgers-Camden community, Chancellor Haddon served as dean
of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, which
benefited from the new, transformative academic resources and
intellectual vitality that occurred under her leadership. In 2011, the
school received a $30 million commitment from the W.P. Carey Foundation,
the largest gift ever received by the university and its law school.
The new resources, targeted toward faculty development, allowed
Chancellor Haddon to strengthen the school's already nationally ranked programs in
health, environmental, and clinical law and to allocate additional
resources to build its newer programs in business and intellectual
property law. She also enriched students' legal education by expanding
the law school's commitment to recruiting a diverse student body.
In 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 Chancellor Haddon was honored by the National Jurist as one of the "25 Most Influential People in Legal Education." In 2012, the Daily Record of
Baltimore named her one of the "Top 100 Women" in Maryland; in 2010,
the newspaper named her as one of the year's most "Influential
Marylanders." In 2011, she received the Great Teacher Award from the
Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).
In Maryland, Chancellor Haddon has been honored by the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
of Maryland African American History and Culture; serves on the board of
the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; and is a member of the
Lawyers' Round Table, the 2011 class of Leadership Maryland, and
Network 2000.
Chancellor Haddon currently is a member of the American Bar Association's
Commission on the Future of Legal Services. She has served on numerous
boards, including the Delaware Valley Community Reinvestment Fund, the
Women's Law Project, the William Penn Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels
Fund, and the Philadelphia Education Fund. In addition, she is on the
board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
She also served as co-president of the board of governors and as a
member of the executive committee of the Society of American Law
Teachers, as a member of the executive committee of the Association of
American Law Schools, and as a trustee of the Law School Admissions
Council.
In 2014, Chancellor Haddon was an invited speaker at the 91st annual meeting of
the American Law Institute, where other invited speakers included U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was named among the "2014
Women of Distinction" by Philadelphia Business Journal. In
January 2015, she delivered the keynote address at the 20th Mid-Atlantic
People of Color Conference. She is a recipient of the 2015 New Jersey
Women Lawyers Association's Women's Initiative and Leaders in Law
Platinum Award.
Prior to joining UM Carey Law, Chancellor Haddon served for more than 25 years
as a distinguished faculty member at the Temple University Beasley
School of Law. An accomplished scholar on constitutional law and tort
law, she is the coauthor of two casebooks in those fields and has
written numerous scholarly articles on equal protection, jury
participation, academic freedom, and diversity.
During her years at Temple, she fought racial and gender bias on the
Pennsylvania bench and bar, serving on several state and city bodies,
including the City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics. Previously she
practiced at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and
clerked for the Honorable Joseph F. Weis Jr. of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Chancellor Haddon earned an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1985 and a juris doctor, cum laude, from Duquesne University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Duquesne Law Review,
in 1977. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1972
and served as vice chair of the Smith College Board of Trustees until
2009.
Born in Washington, D.C., Haddon spent much of her childhood in
Passaic, New Jersey, where her mother was a public school teacher and
her father served as a dentist. She is married to Frank McClellan, a
1967 graduate of Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a professor
emeritus at Temple University law school. She has a daughter and two
sons.
