Greg Van Tatenhove, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, has been appointed as the new Dean of the Rosenberg College of Law at the University of Kentucky. The announcement was made in Lexington.
U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (R-Ky), who represents Kentucky’s 6th district in Congress and is an alumnus of the University of Kentucky College of Law, issued a statement regarding the appointment. “I want to congratulate my friend, Judge Greg Van Tatenhove on his appointment as the new Dean of the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. As an alumnus of the College, I am thrilled that Judge Van Tatenhove will be stepping into this role. He has been an outstanding Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and he will no doubt leverage his substantial experience in government, private practice and the federal judiciary to lead the law school into the future and cultivate the next generation of attorneys, judges, lawmakers and business leaders for the Commonwealth.”
Andy Barr has served in Congress since 2013 after replacing Ben Chandler and previously held a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Barr was born in Lexington in 1973 and continues to reside there. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1996 before obtaining his JD from UK’s College of Law in 2001.
