Frederick M. Lawrence

Frederick M. Lawrence
8th President of Brandeis University
In office January 1, 2011 – July 1, 2015
Preceded by	Jehuda Reinharz
Personal details
Born	1955 Port Washington, New York
Spouse(s)	Kathy Lawrence
Children	Miriam and Noah
Residence	New Haven, Connecticut
Profession	Attorney
Religion	Jewish

Frederick M. Lawrence (born 1955) is an American lawyer, civil rights scholar and Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. He served as President of Brandeis University from 2011-2015, and prior to that was the dean of the George Washington University law school from 2005-2010.

Lawrence was born in Port Washington, New York. He is the son of an engineer, Joseph Lawrence, who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and Beatrice Lawrence, who chaired the English department at Port Washington High School (Paul D. Schreiber High School).

Lawrence graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude in 1977, winning the William Bradford Turner Prize, the college’s highest honor, and Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal in 1980.

Lawrence is married to Kathy Lawrence, an academic who specializes in 19th-century American literature. They have two children, Miriam and Noah.

Lawrence began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, Lawrence served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he became chief of the Civil Rights Unit. During that time Lawrence served under Rudolph W. Giuliani who was the United States Attorney.

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