New dean at Florida A&M law college

Photo: FAMU College of Law Dean, LeRoy Pernell

LeRoy Pernell is the new dean of Florida A&M University's College of Law.

Pernell, who was dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law, says his main goal is to gain American Bar Association accreditation for the FAMU College of Law in Orlando. The college received provisional accreditation in 2004.

He replaces Percy Luney Jr., who was fired in 2005 after a payroll audit revealed Kentucky attorney Shirley Cunningham Jr. donated $1 million to the FAMU law school in return for a $100,000-a-year job that didn't require him to teach on-site. Luney maintained that FAMU's former presidents Frederick Humphries and Fred Gainous made the arrangement with Cunningham, not him.

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