Selection Commissions in New Mexico, a role that the dean of the law school is given by the New Mexico Constitution. Dean Scarnecchia served on the New Mexico Supreme Court Task Forces on Professionalism and Access to Justice. She was a member of the ABA New Deans Workshop Committee, the Association of American Law Schools' Resource Corps and Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty, and the Law School Admissions Council's Minority Affairs Committee. The Governor of New Mexico also appointed Scarnecchia to serve on several state commissions. As one example, Scarnecchia served in 2006 as co-chair of the "Governor's Task Force on Ethics Reform," which conducted public hearings and authored a report detailing a "comprehensive approach to reforming New Mexico's ethics and campaign finance laws.". Awards In 2019 Scarnecchia was awarded the John W. Reed Michigan Lawyer Legacy Award by the State Bar of Michigan. The award goes to "an educator whose influence on lawyers has elevated the quality of legal practice in our state." References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American legal scholars Deans of law schools in the United States Women deans (academic) Northwestern University alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni University of Michigan Law School faculty University of New Mexico faculty American academic administrators American women legal scholars