The Pace University board of trustees has appointed Stephen J. Friedman, dean of the Pace University School of Law, to the position of interim president effective May 15, 2007. Dean Friedman is a member of the Brooklyn Friends School Class of 1955. (Read alum profile of Friedman.)

Dean Friedman said, “I am honored to serve as interim president, and I look forward to working with the trustees, faculty, students and administration to lead the process of change and growth at Pace.”
          
Dean Friedman, who has been dean and professor of law at Pace since 2004, has served as commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for capital markets policy, partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, and executive vice president and general counsel of both The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and The E.F. Hutton Group. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University. He served as law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

Dean Friedman currently serves as a trustee and is the former president of the nonprofit Practising Law Institute, the largest provider of continuing legal education in the U.S., as a director of NYSE Regulation and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former director of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Refco, Inc. and Conrail.

A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls nearly 13,500 students in bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.