ADMINISTRATION: John McNamara

Assistant Dean for Institutional Affairs
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.987.2393
E-mail: 6mcnamar@jmls.edu

B.S., University of Nebraska–Omaha

Dean McNamara rejoined The John Marshall Law School administrative staff in 1992, having served as the Law School’s communications coordinator from 1988 to 1991.  Dean McNamara has a wealth of experience in communications management, including public relations planning and execution, media and press relations, speech writing, advertising copywriting, and writing, editing, and producing a variety of publications.  His other positions have included media consultant on political campaigns, public information officer for the Nebraska Arts Council, director of public affairs for both Nebraskans for the Arts and Arts Alliance-Nebraska, copywriter for Mutual of Omaha, and news reporter for WOW/KEZO Radio in Omaha, Nebraska.  Since 1979, he has published short stories in nearly a dozen periodicals.  In 1999, he completed a one-week Professional-Artist-In-Residence at Ox-Bow, the Summer School of the Arts and Artist’s Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan, sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked on his novel, A Life Without Grace. In addition, he has conducted creative writing seminars, workshops, and readings in secondary schools, colleges, and universities.