Tax Prof Moves, 2016-20

After a four year hiatus from compiling an annual list of career moves by Tax Professors (see links below for 2004-05 to 2015-16), here is a list of (1) visiting assistant professor hires; (2) entry-level hires; (3) lateral moves; (4) promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships; (5) administrative appointments: (6) visits; and (7) retirements involving tax professors in 2016-2020. (Email me any omissions.) 

VAP Hires

• Jeremy Bearer-Friend (Tax Counsel, Office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren) to NYU (2017)
• Jonathan Choi (Wachtell, Lipon, Rosen & Katz, New York) to NYU (2018)
• Edward Fox to NYU (2017)
• Gaga Rachel Gondwe (Skadden) to NYU (2020)
• Jonathan Grossberg (Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia) to American (2016)
• Ariel Jurow Kleiman to NYU (2016)
• Orli Oren-Kolbinger (Michigan Grotius Research Scholar, Michigan) to Villanova (2017)
• Jeesoo Nam (Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles) to NYU (2019)
• Tracey Roberts (VAP, UC-Hastings) to Cumberland (2016)
• Kyle Rozema (Fellow, Northwestern) to Chicago (2017)
• Blaine Saito (U.S. Department of Justice) to Harvard (2018)

Entry Level Hires

• Andrew Appleby (Adjunct Professor, New York Law School) to Stetson (2018)
• Jeremy Bearer-Friend (VAP, NYU) to George Washington (2019)
• Jonathan Choi (Fellow, NYU) to Minnesota (2020)
• Edward Fox (Fellow, NYU) to Michigan (2018)
• Ari Glogower (VAP, NYU) to Ohio State (2016)
• Jacob Goldin (Faculty Fellow, Stanford) to Stanford (2017)
• Jonathan Grossberg (Practitioner-in-Residence, American) to Robert Morris (2018)
• Mindy Herzfeld to Florida (2017)
• Hayes Holderness (VAP, Chicago) to Richmond (2017)
• Samuel Kan to Barry (2017)
• Ariel Jurow Kleiman (VAP, NYU) to San Diego (2018)
• Christine Kim (Caplin & Drysdale, Washington D.C.) to Utah (2017)
• Michelle Layser (Fellow, Georgetown) to Illinois (2018)
• Jennifer Levine (Wiggin and Dana LLP, Stamford) to Quinnipiac (2018)
• Zachary Liscow to Yale (2016)
• Fred Murray (Managing Director of International Tax Services, Grant Thornton LLP) to Florida (2017)
• Tracey Roberts (VAP, Cumerland) to Cumberland (2016)
• Rebecca Rosenberg to Ohio Northern (2017)
• Kyle Rozema (Fellow, Chicago) to Washington Univ. (2019)
• Blaine Saito (VAP, Harvard) to Northeastern (2020)
• Christine Spiedel (Vermont Legal Aid) to Villanova (2018)
• Clint Wallace (VAP, NYU) to South Carolina (2017)
• Eleanor Wilking (AAP, NYU) to Cornell (2020)

Lateral Moves

• Ted Afield (Ave Maria) to Georgia State (2016)
• Josh Blank (NYU) to UC-Irvine (2017)
• Neil Buchanan (George Washington) to Florida (2019)
• Kimberly Clausing (Reed) to UCLA (2019)
• Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan) to Oxford (2019)
• Joshua P. Fershee (West Virginia) to Creighton (2019)
• Kendra Fershee (West Virginia) to Creighton (2019)
• Vic Fleischer (San Diego) to UC-Irvine (2018)
• Keith Fogg (Villanova) to Harvard (2017)
• David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) to Indiana (2016)
• Philip Hackney (Louisiana State) to Pittsburgh (2018)
• Victoria Haneman (Concordia) to Creighton (2018)
• David Hasen (Colorado) to Florida (2017)
• Stephanie Hoffer (Ohio State) to Indiana-McKinney (2020)
• Rebecca Kysar (Brooklyn) to Fordham (2018)
• Sarah Lawsky (UC-Irvine) to Northwestern (2016)
• Goldburn Maynard (Louisville) to Indiana University Business School (2020)
• Khrista McCarden (Pepperdine) to Tulane (2018)
• Nick Mirkay (Creighton) to Hawaii (2017)
• Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane) to Boston College (2017)
• Leigh Osofsky (Miami) to North Carolina (2018)
• Gregg Polsky (North Carolina) to Georgia (2016)
• Michael Simkovic (Seton Hall) to USC (2016)
• Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) to Seton Hall (2020)
• Del Wright (Valparaiso) to Missouri-Kansas City (2017)

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Ted Afield (Georgia State) to Mark and Evelyn Trammell Associate Clinical Professor of Law (2018)
• Jordan Barry (San Diego) to University Professor (2019)
• Jordan Barry (San Diego) to  Kaye and Richard Woltman Professor in Finance (2020)
• Tessa Davis (South Carolina) to Associate Professor of Law With Tenure (2018)
• Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego) to Herzog Endowed Scholar (2017)
• Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego) to University Professor (2020)
• Ari Glogower (Ohio State) to Associate Professor of Law With Tenure (2019)
• Jacob Goldin (Stanford) to Associate Professor of Law (2019)
• Victoria Haneman (Creighton) to Frank J. Kellegher Professor of Trusts & States (2019)
• Daniel Hemel (Chicago) to Professor of Law With Tenure (2020)
• Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) to McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor (2020)
• Hayes Holderness (Richmond) to Associate Professor of Law (2020)
• Michael Kelly (Creighton) to Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law (2017)
• Raneta Mack (Creighton) to Skinner Family Professorship in Law (2017)
• Khrista McCarden (Tulane) to Associate Professor of Tax Law With Tenure (2019)
• Doron Narotzki (Akron) to Associate Professor of Law With Tenure (2020)
• Mary Pareja (New Mexico) to Don L. and Mabel F. Dickason Professor of Law With Tenure (2020)
• Tracey Roberts (Cumberland) to Associate Professor of Law (2020)
• Diane Uchimiya (Creighton) to Connie Kearney Endowed Chair in Clinical Legal Education (2020)
• Camilla E. Watson (Georgia) to Ernest P. Rogers Chair (2019)
• Sean Watts (Creighton) to James L. Koley ’54 Professor of Constitutional Law (2020)
• Bret Wells (Houston) to Law Foundation Professor of Law (2018)
• Elaine Wilson (West Virginia) to Full Professor of Law With Tenure (2017)

Administrative Appointments

• Jordan Barry (San Diego) to Co-Director, Graduate Tax Program (2018)
• Paul Caron (Associate Dean For Research And Faculty Development, Pepperdine) to Dean (2017)
• Adam Chodorow (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Arizona State) to Vice Dean (2020)
• Joshua P. Fershee (West Virginia) to Dean (Creighton) (2019)
• Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego) to Co-Director, Graduate Tax Program (2018)
• Samantha Galvin (Associate Professor of the Practice of Taxation, Denver) named Director of Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (2020)
• Charlene Luke (Florida) to Associate Dean for Tax Programs (2018)
• Jack Manhire (Director of Program Development and Senior Lecturer in Law, Texas A&M) to Assistant Dean And Chief of Staff Of The I-School, And Assistant Vice President For Entrepreneurship And Economic Development (2017)
• Marty McMahon (James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar in Taxation, Florida) to Director, Graduate Tax Program (2016)
• Chris Pietruszkiewicz (Dean, Stetson) to President of University of Evansville (2018)
• Diane Uchimiya (LaVerne) to Director of Legal Clinics (Creighton) (2020)
• Elaine Wilson (West Virginia) to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2018)

Visits

• Dorothy Brown (Emory) to Pepperdine (Spring 2019)
• Steven Dean (Brooklyn) to NYU (Spring 2029 - Fall 2020)
• Bobby Dexter (Chapman) to Pepperdine (Spring 2020)
• David Elkins (Netanya) to Cornell (Spring 2020)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) virtually to Vienna University of Economics and Business (October 7-9, 2020)
• Ben Leff (American) to Georgetown (Fall 2020)

Retirements

• Brookes Billman (NYU)
• Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent)
• G. Michael Fenner (Creighton)
• Catherine Mahern (Creighton)
• Jim Edward Maule (Villanova)
• Kenneth J. Melilli (Creighton)
• Mildred Robinson (Virginia)
• Deborah Schenk (NYU)
• George Yin (Virginia)

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2015-16
• 2014-15
• 2013-14
• 2012-13
• 2011-12
• 2010-11
• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05