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Hastings College of the Law announced Tuesday that Dean Nell Newton will step down on July 1 to become dean of Notre Dame Law School in Indiana.
Newton, a 1976 graduate of Hastings, has been chancellor and dean at the San Francisco school for three years.
Hastings, part of the University of California, was founded in 1878.
Board Chair James Mahoney said, "Dean Newton's three-year tenure at Hastings has been tremendously successful, adding new faculty members, enlivening the intellectual activity on campus and increasing philanthropic support for the law school."
Mahoney said Hastings will appoint an interim dean to begin on July 1 and will undertake a nationwide search for Newton's replacement.
Elsewhere in San Francisco, the Golden Gate University Law School last week announced the appointment of former San Francisco Bar Association Executive Director Drucilla Ramey as its new dean.
Ramey served as executive director of the Bar Association from 1985 to 2002 and most recently was executive director of the National Association of Women Judges in New York for four years.
She is a former chair of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
Golden Gate University President Dan Angel said Ramey will bring the school "great experience, strong networking and fundraising skills, a national reputation and instant recognition in the Bay Area."
Ramey will take over from current Dean Alan Ramo on Aug. 1.
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