Stefanie Lindquist assumed her new role as interim dean of the University of Texas School of Law at a difficult time.

She took over on Dec. 8, 2011, the same day William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin, requested and received then-law Dean Lawrence Sager’s immediate resignation. Sager told Texas Lawyer at the time that after he announced his plans to leave UT Law by August 2012, he became “a lame duck” and “was in a very exposed position.”