Frederick M. Lawrence

Frederick M. Lawrence
Lawrence in 2017
10th CEO Phi Beta Kappa Society
Incumbent
Assumed office August 1, 2016
Preceded by	John Churchill
Personal details
Born	1955 (age 68–69) Port Washington, New York, U.S.
Spouse	Kathy Lawrence
Residence(s)	Washington, DC
Education	Williams College (BA) Yale University (JD)

Frederick M. Lawrence (born 1955) is an American lawyer, civil rights scholar and 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,^[1] the nation's first academic honor society, founded in 1776. Lawrence is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and the American Law Institute in 1999. Lawrence received the 2019 Ernest L. Boyer Award^[2] from the New American Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences’ Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award in 2018.