Melanie Leslie, the new dean of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, didn’t move to New York City more than 30 years ago to become a lawyer—unless she was playing one on TV.

She arrived in 1983 after graduating from the University of Oregon with hopes of becoming a star of the stage and screen. She worked as a singer and an actress, and her acting credits include walk-on roles in soap operas and commercials —”nothing that was going to make me famous,” she recalled.

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