Roger Fairfax | |
Office: | Dean of the Washington College of Law |
Term Start: | July 2021 |
Predecessor: | Camille A. Nelson |
Birth Name: | Roger Anthony Fairfax Jr. |
Spouse: | Lisa Fairfax |
Relatives: | Justin Fairfax (brother) |
Education: | Harvard University (AB, JD) University of London (MA) |
Signature: | Roger Fairfax signature.png |
Roger Anthony Fairfax Jr. is an American legal scholar.
Roger Fairfax Jr. is the eldest son of Roger Sr. and Charlene Fairfax.[1] Fairfax Jr.'s youngest brother, Justin Fairfax,[2] served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. The Fairfax family can trace its ancestry to Simon Fairfax, a slave freed by Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.[3]
Roger Fairfax Jr. and his wife Lisa Fairfax raised three children.[1] [4]
Roger Fairfax Jr. attended Harvard College before completing a master's degree from the University of London.[5] [6] He also attended Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C.[7] While a student at Harvard Law School, Fairfax edited the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk for Patti B. Saris and later Judith W. Rogers.[8] Fairfax is an elected member of the American Law Institute.[9] Fairfax was a federal prosecutor and worked for O'Melveny & Myers before joining the George Washington University Law School faculty, where he served as Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law until 2021,[10] when he was appointed dean of the Washington College of Law at American University.[11] [12] Fairfax is also the chair of Archbishop Carroll High School's board of directors.[7]