Law Administration
Rebecca E. Zietlow
Dean
Distinguished University Professor
Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values
LC 2000C
419.530.2379
rebecca.zietlow@utoledo.edu
Zietlow Faculty Profile
Rebecca Zietlow joined the College of Law faculty in 1995. She currently serves as Distinguished University Professor and the Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values. At Toledo Law, she teaches in the areas of constitutional law, federal courts, and constitutional litigation.
Dean Zietlow is a leading expert on constitutional theory, examining constitutional interpretation outside of the courts. She is an acclaimed author with books that span the intersection of law and history. Zietlow is among a small group of scholars who study the congressional interpretation of the Constitution. Her scholarly interest is in the Reconstruction Era, including the meaning and history of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Before entering law teaching, Zietlow clerked for Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked as a legal services attorney in Chicago. She earned her B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from Barnard College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Evan Zoldan
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
John W. Stoepler Professor of Law and Values
Director of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes
LC 2000 C
419.530.2856
evan.zoldan@utoledo.edu
Zoldan Faculty Profile
Evan C. Zoldan researches legislation, including legislative power, the legislative process, and statutory interpretation. His work on legislative power questions whether Congress and state legislatures may target named individuals for special treatment. His article on targeted legislation, The Equal Protection Component of Legislative Generality, was selected for presentation at the Yale / Stanford / Harvard Junior Faculty Forum at Yale Law School to represent the category of Constitutional Law: Theoretical Foundations. His work on legislation has been cited by both federal and state appellate courts and in briefs, treatises, and scholarly works. Professor Zoldan has appeared in the national media, including the Washington Post, CNN, and Bloomberg News. Professor Zoldan is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process.
Professor Zoldan received his law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Notes & Articles Editor of Georgetown’s Law & Policy in International Business journal. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from New York University, where he studied political philosophy. After law school, Professor Zoldan served as law clerk to judges on the United States Court of Federal Claims and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Before joining the faculty of Toledo Law, he worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice.
Katie Carollo
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
LC 2000 E
419.530.2937
kate.carollo@utoledo.edu
Assistant Dean Carollo helps coordinate a variety of services and programs to enrich the overall experience of Toledo Law students and to support their academic, professional and personal development. Her portfolio includes student organizations, character and fitness disclosures and student well-being. She also serves as the advisor to the Student Bar Association.
Carollo was previously the director of the Office of Professional Development at the College of Law, where she worked with law students and graduates on career development for the legal profession. Before joining OPD, she was a contracts specialist at a local industrial contractor and an associate at a private law firm in Toledo with a focus on litigation defense.
Carollo earned her B.A. with honors in history from Ohio State University and her J.D. magna cum laude from Toledo Law.
She currently serves on the board of the Access to Justice Campaign and the Anthony Wayne Youth Foundation. She is also a member of the Toledo Bar Association, American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Federal Bar Association and National Association for Law Placement.
Rick Goheen
Assistant Dean for the LaValley Law Library
Associate Professor of Law
LC 3009
419.530.2945
rick.goheen@utoledo.edu
Goheen Faculty Profile
Rick Goheen joined the College of Law faculty in 2007. He previously served as reference librarian, interim head of information access, and head of reference at the University of Cincinnati from 1995 to 2001. From 2001-07, Dean Goheen was the founding associate director for public services at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. He served as treasurer of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries (ORALL) from 2009-17 and then as president in 2018-19.
As director of the LaValley Law Library, Dean Goheen manages the College of Law's legal information resources, supports educational technology throughout the college, teaches Advanced Legal Research, and perhaps most importantly, works to provide a comfortable and conducive study environment for students of all backgrounds as they learn the law.
Outside the law school, his personal passions include school sports photography and all forms of jazz, from traditional to fusion, contemporary and beyond. Dean Goheen holds a B.A. from the University of Toledo, a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati, and an M.S.L.S. from the University of Kentucky.