Nina Appel

Nina S. Appel (born February 17, 1936) was the first female dean of Loyola Law School, known for her commitment to ethical education and her passion for torts law.

Biography Nina Schick Appel was born in Prague on February 17, 1936, to Leo and Nora (Thein) Schick. Her family was Jewish. She earned her undergraduate degree at Cornell She went on to graduate Columbia Law School in 1959, by dual enrolling as an undergrad, graduating in the same class as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While living in Palo Alto, she had two children, Karen and Richard Appel. In 1973, she was hired at Loyola University Chicago School of Law by dean Charles R. Purcell as a law teacher, and she immediately began to teach in torts, administrative law, products liability, and evidence. She was the unanimous choice of the search committee in 1983, when she was appointed the dean of Loyola Law School despite being a woman in a male-dominated field and Jewish at a Jesuit institution.