4/26/02--Boston College Law School is pleased to announce the hiring of Henry Clay to the position of Associate Dean for Administration. Clay will assume the Associate Dean’s duties effective June 1, 2002, and will replace R. Michael Cassidy, who is moving to a full-time faculty position after over five years of outstanding service to BC Law.

As Associate Dean, Clay will be responsible for Law School finances, personnel administration, facilities planning, marketing, and oversight of the admissions, career services, and law review publications offices.

"Henry’s intellectual ability and his prior management experience in the Commonwealth’s highest court make him exceptionally well qualified for this important role at BC Law," said Dean John H. Garvey. "In addition to twelve years of exemplary service as Chief Staff Counsel to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Henry brings to his new role a strong work ethic, a calm and patient demeanor, and a keen interest in legal education."

Dean Garvey went on to praise the work of Dean Cassidy, whom he called a brilliant administrator, teacher and mentor for BC Law students. "We’re lucky to have been able to keep him on our faculty," Garvey said. "He will continue to be a tremendous asset to our community."

Henry Clay comes to the Law School from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, where he served as Chief Staff Counsel since 1990. Prior to that appointment he served as Senior Staff Counsel and Staff Attorney. In addition to his duties at the SJC, Clay served as an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University Law School. He also served as adjunct faculty at Massachusetts School of Law from 1991-1995.

Prior to his service at the SJC, Clay has been in private practice with the firm Parks, Carroll, Sullivan and Clay, and worked as Minority Counsel for the Senate Ways and Means Committee. He has served as Counsel for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, and on the Executive Staff for Governor Francis W Sargent. He also served in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1967-1969, with an Honorable Discharge as Captain.

Among numerous professional and community activities, Clay has been a mentor in the Boston Partners in Education program and a tutor in the Boston Adult Learning Center, and also served on the Community Services Committee of the Mass. Bar Association from 1993-1998. He was Associate Editor of the Massachusetts Law Review from 1982-1992, and served as Chair of the Committee of Appellate Staff Attorneys in the Judicial Administration Division of the American Bar Association.

Clay received his L.L.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1967, and his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1964. His publications include "Allocating the Appellate Caseload," in Appellate Practice in Massachusetts, and "The Supreme Judicial Court: Liberty and Community," in Supreme Judicial Court 1692-1992 (a Mass Lawyer’s Weekly Special Section, 1992), among others.