Strickman commented on the unease UA students had with respect to employment opportunities with the Rose Law Firm, which had come under heavy scrutiny during the Clinton Administration for its ties to Hillary Clinton. He also expressed doubt that a 1998 effort by critic to curtail Special Prosecutor Ken Starr would be found to have standing. Strickman remained at UA for eight years, during which time he spent six years on the ABA Accreditation Committee. In the 1980s and 1990s, he chaired fifteen accreditation site visits for the ABA. Strickman was one of two front-runners considered for the deanship of the Detroit College of Law in 2000. In 2000, Strickman was selected to lead the newly-established Florida International University College of Law, taking office in January, 2001 and helping to position the school to appeal to the region's Hispanic population and to blue-collar families not necessarily able to afford to attend private law schools in the area. He successfully guided the law school to provisional accreditation at the earliest possible time, in August 2004, and to full accreditation in December 2006. Following the success of FIU Law, the New England School of Law hired Strickman to conduct an analysis of plans by the neighboring University of Massachusetts to establish a law school; Strickman concluded that the proposed program would cost more than what the University of Massachusetts expected. Strickman weighed in on the question again four years later, with a letter to the UMass trustees again questioning the financial feasibility of the proposed effort. Florida International University School of Law received an initial third-tier ranking in its first year of eligibility in the U.S. News & World Report in 2007. Strickman stepped down from the deanship at FIU in 2009, remaining at the school as a professor. Personal life Strickman married Danielle Dana of Newton, Massachusetts on June 30, 1968. References External links Florida International University webpage for Leonard Strickman FIU Magazine article on Dean Strickman coming to FIU 1942 births Living people American legal scholars Deans of law schools in the United States Boston University faculty Boston College faculty Northern Illinois University faculty University of Arkansas faculty Florida International University College of Law faculty Yale Law School alumni