Susan Duncan

Susan Hanley Duncan is an American academic administrator and lawyer serving as dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law since August 2017. She was the interim dean of the University of Louisville School of Law from 2012 to 2017.

Early life and education Duncan is from Louisville, Kentucky. Her father John "Jack" Hanley was an attorney and her mother, Jean Kipp, was a teacher. Duncan graduated from the Sacred Heart Academy in 1984. She completed her spring 1986 semester in Luxembourg through the Miami University European Center. On August 1, 2017, joined the University of Mississippi School of Law as its dean, succeeding interim dean Debbie Bell. She is the first female dean to serve in a non interim capacity at the University of Mississippi School of Law on August 1, 2017. She became a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2020. In 2022, served as president of the Scribes legal society.

Personal life Duncan is married has six daughters and one son.