Ron Rychlak, Ole Miss' Faculty Athletics Representative and law professor, was recently appointed as one of the university's newest Distinguished Professors.
The Distinguished Professor appointment is an honorific title started by UM in 2018 that recognizes the best faculty with sustained excellence at the university. The award was created in response to the university's strategic initiative to develop a post-professorial recognition.
Rychlak, who has served as the university's faculty athletics representative since 2007, is a 1980 graduate of Wabash College with a bachelor's degree in economics. He then went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the Vanderbilt in 1983. Before joining the UM School of Law in 1987, Rychlak served as a clerk to Judge Harry W. Wellford of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
