St. Xavier University Names New President

Christine M. Wiseman, a former Assistant Wisconsin Attorney General and most recently Provost and professor of law at Loyola University, has been named president of Saint Xavier University.

The Saint Xavier Board of Trustees made the announcement Tuesday morning. Wiseman's appointment will take effect on June 1, 2010.

With a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate from Marquette University, Wiseman has spent nearly 30 highly successful years in Catholic higher education, a release from Saint Xavier said.

Before joining Loyola in 2007, Wiseman served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Creighton University and as an administrator and Law Professor at Marquette University.

Prior to her academic career, Wiseman served as an Assistant Wisconsin Attorney General with the Criminal Appeals Division and a law clerk for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Throughout her career, Wiseman has been recognized and honored for her contributions and her service. In 1989, she received the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union Volunteer Attorney of the Year Award for her seven-year pro bono representation of Texas death row inmate Billy Conn Gardner, and in 1991, she received the Marquette University Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. The Wisconsin Business Journal also recognized her in 2000 as a “Woman of Influence.”

Prior to leaving Marquette University in May 2002, Wiseman received the Spirit of the Law School Award for serving as a role model for a generation of Marquette lawyers, and in April 2003, she was named Marquette University Law Alumna of the Year. In 2006, she was nominated for the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award sponsored by the American Bar Association. Creighton University named The Christine M. Wiseman, J.D. Scholarship for Disadvantaged Women for her.

Wiseman remains Associate Editor of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology and is co-author of Wisconsin Practice: Criminal Practice & Procedure (West 2008, 2d Ed.) and Punitive Damages: Law and Practice (West 2000). Her articles have appeared in the Ohio State Law Journal, the St. Louis University Law Journal, the Marquette Law Review and elsewhere. She is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and moderator on higher education, law and gender equality topics.