She enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she earned the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
[1] After graduating from Yale in 1994, she served as a law clerk for the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Stephanie K. Seymour from 1994 until 1995.
Levit was appointed Dean of the law school effective July 18, 2008;[1] she was the first woman to hold that post, which she retained until 2015.
[10] At the end of her term as interim president in 2021, she returned to the University of Tulsa College of Law faculty.
In 2017, Levit received the Anna C. Roth Legacy Award from the YWCA Tulsa and the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women.