Harvey PERLMAN
Chancellor
13th Year
Nebraska (1963)
Harvey Perlman was named the 19th Chancellor of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 1, 2001. He had served
as Interim Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
since July 16, 2000.
A former dean of the University of Nebraska College of
Law (1983-98), Perlman has also served as interim senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs at UNL (1995-96).
A Nebraska native, Perlman was raised in York, and earned
a bachelor of arts in history and a juris doctorate from the
University of Nebraska. During his law school years, he was editor
in chief of the Nebraska Law Review and was elected to the Order
of the Coif, a law honors society.
He joined the NU law faculty in 1967 after spending a year as a
Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.
He served on the Nebraska law faculty until 1974 when he joined
the faculty at the University of Virginia Law School. He returned to
Nebraska in 1983 when he accepted the deanship of the Nebraska
Law College, a post he held until 1998 when he returned to the
professoriate. He has also served as a visiting professor at Florida
State University College of Law, the University of Puget Sound
School of Law and the University of Iowa College of Law.
His area of legal expertise lies in torts and intellectual
property. He is a member of the Nebraska State and American
Bar Associations and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar
Association. Perlman is co-author of “Intellectual Property and
Unfair Competition” (5th edition, 1998) and co-reporter for the
American Law Institute’s “Restatement of Unfair Competition”
(1994).
He serves on the Council of the American Law Institute,
a leading national law reform organization and as one of
Nebraska’s Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. He previously
served as a member of the NCAA Board of Directors and is past
chair of the Bowl Championship Series Presidential Oversight
Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce and is Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation.
He received the George Turner Award from the Nebraska State
Bar Association for contributions to the legal profession and
the Roger T. Larson Community Builder Award from the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce.
Perlman and his wife, Susan, an NU alumna, are the parents
of two daughters. Anne, who earned degrees from UNL and the
University of Nebraska Medical Center, practices medicine in
Lincoln and is married to UNL alumnus David Spinar; they have
three children; Will, Ava, and Marco, Husker fans all. Daughter
Amie, who received bachelors and juris doctorate degrees from
UNL, is a Nebraska assistant attorney general and is married to
UNL alumnus Ron Larson; they are the parents of Caleb Quinn.
Josephine POTUTO
Faculty Representative
16th Year
Douglass College (1967)
Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, the Richard H. Larson Professor of
Constitutional Law, has been Nebraska’s faculty representative
(FAR) to the NCAA and conference level since May 15, 1997.
For the past three years, Potuto has been president of the
1A FAR (FARs from FBS institutions). In 2002, she was named
Outstanding Faculty Athletics Representative by the All-American
Football Foundation.
Potuto spent nine years (the maximum) on the NCAA
Division I Committee on Infractions (chair her last two years)
and currently substitutes on the Committee when a member
cannot serve. She is a past Big 12 Conference representative
on the NCAA Division I Management Council, served on the
NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championship Committee, and
currently serves on an NCAA-wide (all divisions) committee
to advise NCAA staff on student-athlete issues.
Potuto is an expert on NCAA enforcement and infractions
processes as well as the general NCAA committee structure.
She has testified before the House Subcommittee on the
Constitution regarding due process in NCAA infractions hearings
and has made presentations to the Knight Commission on
Intercollegiate Athletics. Potuto is a past adviser to the Uniform
Law Commissioners Committee to draft a sports agent statute,
has drafted rules governing search and seizure and hearings for
the Nebraska Racing Commission, and also has written on issues
of gender equity in college athletics.
At Nebraska, Potuto is a member of the academic senate as
well as the senate’s intercollegiate athletics committee. She also
served on Nebraska’s NCAA site certification steering committee.
Potuto tea