College of Law Administration

Douglas E. Ray
Dean of the College of Law

Office:  LC2000C
Phone: (419) 530-2379
Email: Douglas.Ray@utoledo.edu
Dean Ray's Faculty page

Douglas E. Ray is Dean and Professor of Law. Dean Ray previously served as Dean of the Widener University School of Law and Vice President of Widener University from January 1999 until June 2005. He was responsible for law school campuses in Wilmington, Delaware and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From 1981-1998 he taught at The University of Toledo College of Law where he served as Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values and also as an associate dean. An honors graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Harvard Law School, Dean Ray has been an economist with the U.S. Department of Labor, a labor attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, and served in the U.S. Army.

A former chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Dean Ray has spoken at the FMCS Annual Labor-Management Conference, appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and provided the Keynote Address at the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference.

Since 1999, he has chaired the annual four-day Labor Law and Labor Arbitration Program at the Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) in Plano, Texas.

Daniel J. Steinbock
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law & Values

Office:  LC2000
Phone: (419) 530-4107   
E-Mail: daniel.steinbock@utoledo.edu
Dean Steinbock's Faculty page

Daniel J. Steinbock is Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law and Values and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Toledo College of Law. He has been a member of the faculty since 1985 and has taught Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Administrative Law, Immigration Law, and Trial Practice. He was voted Outstanding Professor by six spring graduating classes. Prior to joining the College of Law, he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Seattle University.

Dean Steinbock received his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University. Before entering law teaching he worked as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York, as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in state and federal courts in New York City, and as Associate and Executive Director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York. Dean Steinbock also served as Education Coordinator in Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand for the International Rescue Committee. He is co-author of Unaccompanied Children: Care and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and Refugee Movements (Oxford U. Press), whose recommendations were adopted by United Nations agencies. Dean Steinbock has also written law review articles and book chapters about refugee children, refugee law, search and seizure, identity documentation, and data mining. He is currently a member of the Ohio Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure.

Carol E. Frendt
Assistant Dean for Law Admissions

Office: LC 1015
Phone: 419.530.4131
E-Mail: carol.frendt@utoledo.edu

Carol Frendt graduated from Ball State University with an A.B. She served as the law registrar for two years and has been in admissions 28 years. She belongs to Association of American Law Schools, Midwest Alliance for Law Admissions, Midwest Association of Prelaw Advisors and National Network of Law School Officers.

Kathleen M. Amerkhanian
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Administration & Communications

Office: LC 2000C
Phone: 419.530.2937
E-Mail: kathleen.amerkhanian@utoledo.edu

Kathleen Amerkhanian graduated magna cum laude from The University of Toledo College of Law in 2004 and is a member of the Ohio Bar. While in law school, she served as note and comment editor for The University of Toledo Law Review. She joined the College of Law staff in 2005 as director of communications, and was promoted to assistant dean in 2007. Prior to law school, she worked as a journalist for two years, primarily as a reporter at a daily newspaper in South Carolina, where she earned a South Carolina Press Association award for in-depth reporting. She received her B.A. in English Writing (journalism) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997.

Heather S. Karns
Assistant Dean for Law Career Services and Alumni Affairs

Office: LC 1037
Phone: 419.530.2851E-
Mail: heather.karns@utoledo.edu

Heather Karns received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Toledo in 1994, followed by a Masters Degree in Counseling from Clemson University (1996) and a Professional Counselor's license.

After three years of work in areas of mental health and job retention, she returned to a university setting where she eventually became Assistant Director for Employment & Recruitment at Clemson University's Career Center. In this position Heather supervised a team of student service professionals and provided individual and group counseling services to undergraduates, graduate students, professional staff, faculty and the University Ombudsman. She began with The University of Toledo College of Law in the spring of 2003 as Director of Law Career Services, now the Office of Professional Development which also includes the alumni component.

Additional professional experience includes teaching a graduate level career counseling course, involvement in numerous professional associations providing programming on student services, recruitment and career direction. Currently she is a member of the Toledo Bar Association Diversity Committee and is also involved in the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) contributing articles to the Bulletin, presenting and moderating programs at the annual conference and serving on committees.