Susan Hanley Duncan is an American academic administrator and lawyer serving as dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law since August 2017.
[1] Her father John "Jack" Hanley was an attorney and her mother, Jean Kipp, was a teacher.
[3] Duncan worked as an associate from 1991 to 1992 at Boehl Stopher Graves & Deindoerfer in Louisville, Kentucky.
[3] Duncan was one of the top four candidates to become the Brandeis dean but the school eventually selected Colin Crawford.
[5] 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.