South Texas College of Law Houston Dean Donald Guter is retiring as president and dean after the upcoming academic year.

He announced his plan to retire in late April in an email to the South Texas law community. Guter served in the U.S. Navy for 32 years in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, advancing from trial counsel up the ladder to Rear Admiral, and retiring in 2002. From 2005 to 2008 he was dean of Duquesne University School of Law. He joined South Texas as its dean in 2009.