Jennifer Mnookin
Jennifer Mnookin | |
|---|---|
Mnookin in 2025 | |
| 21st President of Columbia University | |
Designate | |
| Assuming office July 1, 2026 | |
| Succeeding | Claire Shipman (interim) |
| 30th Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| Assumed office August 4, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Karl Scholz (interim) Rebecca Blank |
| Succeeded by | Eric Wilcots (interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Images of Truth: Evidence, Expertise, and Technologies of Knowledge in the American Courtroom (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Fischer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Institutions | |
Jennifer Leigh Mnookin (born 1967) is an American legal scholar who has been the 30th chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison since August 2022. She previously served as dean of the UCLA School of Law from August 2015 to June 2022.
On January 25, 2026, the Board of Trustees of Columbia University named Mnookin the incoming 21st president of Columbia University, effective July 1, 2026.