Faculty

Dean Gontrum serves as director of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library and has oversight responsibility for academic and information technology in the School of Law. She has served as chair of the Council of Library Directors, the governing body for the University of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions Libraries Consortium. Dean Gontrum has served on a number of law school site evaluation teams for the American Bar Association. She has taken a leadership role in academic law libraries, serving as chair of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries and as chair of the Section of Law Libraries of the Association of American Law Schools.

Dean Gontrum joined the faculty in 1979 as library director after serving in the positions of Associate Law Librarian and Reference/Documents Librarian at the Duke University Law Library. She began her law library career with Taft, Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati.