New University of Vermont President Thomas Sullivan will begin his UVM tenure on Monday, July 16.He takes over an institution which has grown dramatically in its student body and physical plant under the guidance of former President Dan Fogel. Sullivan, 63, a lawyer by training, brings strong management skills to the position. He most recently was provost at the University of Minnesota. His wife, Leslie, is a 1977 graduate of UVM.
Biography: E. Thomas Sullivan, JD
Tom Sullivan became Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Minnesota in July 2004 and has served in that role through January 2012. He also served as the eighth dean of the University of Minnesota Law School from 1995 to 2002. Upon finishing his term as dean, he returned to full-time research and teaching.
In June of 2003, he received the J. William Elwin, Jr., Award from the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education for leadership and contributions to law school development. At the University of Minnesota Law School, he has received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, he was appointed the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law. He has chaired the ABA Section of Legal Education, and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. On several 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.
He is a nationally recognized authority on antitrust law and complex litigation, having authored ten books and over 50 articles. He and co-author Professor Richard Frase published Proportionality Principles in American Law: Controlling Excessive Government Actions (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is the co-author, with Professors Herbert Hovencamp and Howard Shelanksi of Antitrust Law, Policy, and Procedure (6th ed., 2009) and co-author with Professor Jeffrey Harrison of Understanding Antitrust and Its Economic Implications (5th ed. , 2009). Most recently, he published Complex Litigation with Professors Richard Freer, Doug Floyd and Brad Clary (2010). He also published Private Antitrust Actions (Little, Brown & Co., 1996) with Douglas Floyd. He is presently writing a book entitled The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law. On two occasions he has been a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. He twice has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England. During the fall semester 2002, he was a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall).
During 2012, he is a visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago and at New York University. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Sullivan served for six years as dean of the University of Arizona College of Law and as associate dean at Washington University in St. Louis. He began his career in higher education as a faculty member at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from law school at Indiana University in 1973, where he served as an editor on the Indiana Law Review. After law school, he worked for a federal judge, in Miami Florida, and thereafter was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice in the Attorney Generalâ s Honors Program. Before entering Law School teaching in 1979, he was an antitrust litigator with the New York and Washington, D.C., firm of Donovan, Newton, Leisure and Irvine. Throughout his career he has continued to serve as a consultant on antitrust, complex litigation, and Federal Court matters.
Vermont Business Magazine Video of Tom Sullivan's Introduction March 2012:
Source: UVM