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E. Thomas Sullivan, ’73, has been elected by the faculty of Cambridge University Clare Hall College (UK) as a Life Fellow and Member with lifetime faculty privileges for teaching, research, and lectures at Cambridge.

Sullivan is president emeritus and professor of political science at the University of Vermont, where he served as the 26^th president from 2012 to 2019. Sullivan began his career as a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri Law School. He also served on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, before serving as dean of the University of Arizona Law School. In 1995, Sullivan became dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, and from 2004 through January 2012 he served at Minnesota as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. 

Sullivan has chaired the ABA Section of Legal Education and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. On three occasions he has been a consultant to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on judicial nominations to the Supreme Court, and to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on mergers. In 2015 Sullivan received the ABA’s Robert J. Kutak Award for his contributions to the legal academy, the Judiciary, and the Bar. He has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1984 and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) since 1994. Sullivan was elected president of the ABF in October 2020 and will serve a two-year term.