Susan Vivian Mangold began her career at Juvenile Law Center when she was fresh out of law school in 1987, working as a staff attorney on a fellowship from Harvard Law School. This fall, after more than two decades in academia, she’ll be returning to the JLC as its new executive director, the organization announced last week.
Mangold was selected to succeed Robert Schwartz, the JLC’s co-founder and executive director since 1982, after a national search that took more than six months to complete. Mangold’s experience in the area of child welfare, her lengthy history of academic research and her connections in academia made her the right candidate to take over for Schwartz when he steps down in October, said Robert Reinstein of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, who chaired the nine-member search committee.
