partner among the NLJ's top 250 firms in 2015. Additionally, UVA Law is second only to Harvard in the number of alumni serving as chief legal counsel at Fortune 500 companies. Alumni from UVA Law are also employed at 100 of the American Lawyer top 100 law firms (as of May 2016). In a 2010 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Virginia ranked fifth in the number of lawyers at the top 300 U.S. law firms. Clerkships From 2005 to 2018, UVA Law had the fourth-highest placement of law clerks on the United States Supreme Court, surpassed only by Yale, Harvard and Stanford. In 2016 UVA Law alumni set a school record for obtaining the most appellate court clerkships in a term. Deans of the University of Virginia School of Law 1904–1932 William Minor Lile 1932–1937 Armistead Dobie 1939–1963 F.D.G. Ribble 1963–1968 Hardy C. Dillard 1968–1976 Monrad G. Paulsen 1976–1980 Emerson Spies 1980–1988 Richard A. Merrill 1988–1991 Thomas H. Jackson 1991–2001 Robert E. Scott 2001–2008 John C. Jeffries Jr. 2008–2016 Paul G. Mahoney 2016–present Risa L. Goluboff Notable faculty and alumni Alumni UVA Law maintains a list of prominent alumni and has graduated many influential figures in government, business, the judiciary, academia, journalism, and the law, including Woodrow Wilson, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Lowell Weicker, John Warner, David K.E. Bruce, Louis Auchincloss, DeMaurice Smith, Robert Mueller, Janet Napolitano and others. The school's alumni giving rate of more than 50 percent for the past 11 years is among the highest of the nation's law schools. Faculty Many of UVA Law's faculty are prominent scholars and academics, including Anne Coughlin, professor of criminal law, John F. Duffy, who teaches intellectual property, and law school dean Risa L. Goluboff, who is also a professor of legal history and constitutional law. Current faculty: Kenneth Abraham – insurance law, torts Richard Bonnie (LL.B. 1969) – criminal law, bioethics, public policy Naomi R. Cahn – family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence Jonathan Cannon - Blaine T Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Emeritus Danielle Citron – privacy, free expression, civil rights Anne Coughlin – criminal law, feminist jurisprudence Ashley Deeks – national security, international law, intelligence and the laws of war John Duffy – patent law, international intellectual property, administrative law Risa Goluboff – Dean, legal history, constitutional law, constitutional history, civil rights John C. Harrison – constitutional law, administrative law, constitutional