Visiting Faculty
Patricia Mell
Biography
Patricia Mell is the Principal of Mell Strategic Solutions and Consulting, a boutique consulting firm specializing in assisting small business owners and middle income families in achieving their financial goals and dreams. Before embarking on this enterprise, Mell had the distinction of being the eleventh dean and CEO of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She is the second African American woman in the history of the United States to lead a non-HBCU law school. Before joining John Marshall, Mell built a stellar career as an assistant attorney general and corporations counsel with the State of Ohio. As a faculty member and academic dean and with 28 years in the legal academy, Mell has written several scholarly articles and made presentations in a number of national and international venues. Her areas of expertise are criminal law and white collar crime, corporations, agency and partnership and small business enterprises. She also has an interest in computers and privacy and her articles in this arena have been published in high ranking law journals. Mell has won numerous awards including being named one of the most influential Women in Chicago by Crain’s Business Magazine in 2004. She was also included in the silver anniversary edition of Who’s Who in American Women 2006-2007. Her co-authored textbook on the criminal law was published by Carolina Academic Press in 2007. Mell has counseled small businesses and middle income families for over 20 years.
| Education: | A.B., with Honors, Wellesley College J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
| Present Position: | Principal, Strategic Solutions and Consulting |
| Courses taught: |
Agency and Partnership |
| Contact: | pmell@luc.edu |
