Kent Syverud
Kent Syverud | |
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Syverud in 2014 | |
| 16th President of the University of Michigan | |
| Assuming office July 1, 2026 | |
| Succeeding | Domenico Grasso (interim) |
| 12th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University | |
| Assumed office January 13, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Nancy Cantor |
| Succeeded by | Mike Haynie |
| Dean of Washington University School of Law | |
| In office 2005–2013 | |
| Dean of Vanderbilt University Law School | |
| In office 1997–2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kent Douglas Syverud October 23, 1956 Irondequoit, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Ruth Chi-Fen Chen (m. 1982) |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University (BS) University of Michigan (JD, MA) |
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Kent Douglas Syverud (SIV-er-rood; born October 23, 1956) is an American legal scholar who has been serving as the 12th chancellor and president of Syracuse University since January 2014. He will step down as Syracuse chancellor in June 2026 and assume the role of the incoming 16th president of the University of Michigan on July 1, 2026.
He respectively served as law school deans at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri from 2005 to 2013 and at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee from 1997 to 2005. He served as associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Michigan Law School from 1995 to 1997.