Joanie mahoney biography

Joan Mahoney

American legal scholar (born 1943)

Not to be confused with Joanie Mahoney.

Joan Mahoney (born 1943) is a legal scholar and former dean of two law schools.[citation needed] She served as Dean at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, from 1998 to 2003, the first woman law school dean in Michigan and one of the very few women in the United States to have held the deanship at two different law schools.[citation needed] Prior to her tenure as Dean at Wayne State, she served from 1994 to 1996 as Dean of Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts.[citation needed] (Women law school deans remain a distinct minority; others have included Barbara Aronstein Black at Columbia Law School, Elena Kagan and Martha Minow at Harvard Law School, Kathleen Sullivan at Stanford Law School, and the Hon. Kristin Booth Glenn and Michelle J. Anderson at the City University of New York School of Law).[citation needed]

Personal life

Born in New York City, Joan Mahoney is the daughter o

Joanie Mahoney

American lawyer and politician

Not to be confused with Joan Mahoney.

Joanne M. "Joanie" Mahoney (born 1965) is the fifth president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), in Syracuse, New York. Prior to this, she served as the County Executive of Onondaga County, New York. The first woman to hold, and be elected to, that position, she served from January 1, 2008, through November 1, 2018.[3][4]

Personal

Mahoney was raised in Syracuse, New York, as the middle child of nine children.[5] Her father, Bernie Mahoney, was a member of the Syracuse Common Council and then the New York State Assembly.[5]

Mahoney attended Shea Middle School and Corcoran High School in Syracuse, then received her B.A. degree from the Management School at Syracuse University in 1987, and J.D. degree from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1990.[6]

She is married to Marc Overdyk and has four children.[7]

Career

Early career

Mahoney worked as an

Leadership

President

Message from President Mahoney

On behalf of the ESF community, welcome!

As we watch the world change at an unprecedented rate, we are called to answer complex questions about the future. Students, faculty, and staff choose ESF because they want to be part of the solution. This is a place where the environment comes first and science is our middle name.

When you join ESF, you join a community with a collective commitment to do all we can to make the world a better and more environmentally sustainable and socially just place for generations to come.  

Our sustainability advocates and environmental champions inspire all of us every day. At ESF, students arrive with a passion to make the world a better place and leave well-trained to execute. They are taught by some of the best faculty in the world. They participate in hands-on research. They immerse themselves in all of the opportunities our College has to offer.

We are a small College making a big impact. I invite you to explore ESF through our website or by visiting campus.&n

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