Provost and Professor
Denver, CO
Mary Clark serves as provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of Denver (DU). With expertise in the areas of higher education law, women’s legal history, legal ethics, judicial politics, and property, Mary holds an appointment as professor in the law school while also teaching undergraduate students in the areas of history of free speech and history of women’s rights advocacy.
Prior to being named provost at DU, she served as interim provost, deputy provost, and dean of faculty at American University (AU), associate dean for faculty and academic affairs at AU’s law school, director of its doctor of juridical science program, and acting director of its Law and Government Program. Before joining American University, Mary was a visiting lecturer and research scholar at Yale Law School, a Supreme Court fellow with the Federal Judicial Center, a teaching fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and an appellate attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. She clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, following graduation from law school.
Mary is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Harvard Law School.