Leslie Carolyn Kendrick (born 1976)[1] is an American legal scholar who serves as the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law.
[3] Kendrick was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
in classics and English in 1998, then studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Her dissertation was titled "John Milton and the transformation of Virgilian pathos".
[2] After graduating from law school, Kendrick was a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit then clerked for Justice David Souter at the U.S. Supreme Court.