Michael A. Middleton (also Mike Middleton)
is an American academic, a deputy chancellor emeritus, and a professor emeritus at the
University of Missouri School of Law
The University of Missouri School of Law (Mizzou Law or MU Law) is the law school of the University of Missouri. It is located on the university's main campus in Columbia, forty minutes from the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City. The sc ...
.
On November 12, 2015, he was appointed interim president of the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
after the previous president,
Timothy Wolfe, resigned as the result of the
2015 University of Missouri protests
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
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Middleton served in this role until March 2017.
Middleton received a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1968 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1971, becoming the third black graduate of the school.
After working for various offices within the federal government, including the
EEOC
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination ...
, he returned to the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
in 1985. Since 1998, he was a deputy chancellor.
He retired as a deputy chancellor on August 31, 2015.
He was appointed as interim president of
Lincoln University in May 2017, serving until May 31, 2018.
References
University of Missouri alumni
Living people
American lawyers
University of Missouri faculty
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Missouri School of Law faculty
African Americans in Columbia, Missouri
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