Deans of Baylor Law School

Royall T. Wheeler

James E. Shepard

Allen G. Flowers

Thomas E. McDonald

Abner E. Lipscomb

Leslie Jackson

Abner V. McCall

William J. Boswell

Angus S. McSwain

Charles W. Barrow

Bradley J.B. Toben

Bradley J.B. Toben (1991 to present).
Dean and Governor Bill and Vara Faye Daniel Professor of Law. (1983)

Bradley J.B. Toben has served as Dean of Baylor Law School since 1991.  During his tenure, the law school has maintained its stature as one of the elite practice-oriented law schools in the nation.  The law school has been ranked in the "top tier" of American law schools under Toben's leadership.  His legacy, however, will almost certainly be the development of the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center, designed to be one of the most technologically innovative facilities of any law school in the country.

Toben graduated from Baylor Law School with the J.D. degree, with honors, in 1977, after completing his B.A., with honors, in political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received the LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1981 and then taught at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. In 1983, Toben joined the Baylor Law School faculty. He focuses his work in the areas of commercial law and the relationship of debtors and creditors under state and federal law. 

He serves by appointment of the Governor as a Texas Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and was named in 1992 as an Outstanding Young Alumnus of Baylor University. In 1993 he was named as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, having earlier received the University of Missouri-St. Louis Distinguished Alumni Political Science Award. He has participated regularly in accreditation and membership inspections of law schools for the American Bar Association and Association of American Law Schools, and has been active in the State Bar of Texas, especially in the bankruptcy specialization certification program. He is licensed in Texas and Missouri, practiced with a firm in St. Louis, was previously of counsel to the firm of Dawson & Sodd (Dallas and Corsicana) and is a member of the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation.