Jefferson B. Fordham

Jefferson B. Fordham (1906 – June 28, 1994) was the ninth Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the tenth Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Education

Fordham was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he also earned his master's degree. He received a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School in 1930, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. From 1972 to 1993, Fordham was a professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Scholarly work

Fordham was an expert on constitutional and municipal law.