ASU General Counsel Staff | Paul Ward, Vice President of University Administration and General Counsel

ASU Office of General Counsel--Section Title: Staff

Paul J. Ward
Vice President for University Administration and General Counsel
Phone: (480) 965-4550
Voice Mail: (480) 965-8677
Facsimile: (480) 965-0984
E-Mail: Paul.Ward@asu.edu

Paul Ward serves as Vice President for University Administration and General Counsel and served as General Counsel at Arizona State University from 1991 through June 2006. In the role of Vice President for University Administration and General Counsel, he is responsible for the Department of Public Safety, the Internal Audit and Management Services Department and the Office of General Counsel. These roles include responsibilities for all campuses of ASU.

Prior to his association with ASU he served the University of South Carolina System as General Counsel from 1979 to 1991. Previous to this time he was engaged in private practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf.

Mr. Ward served as President (1996-97) and as a member of the Board of Directors (1988-92 and 1993-98) of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). In 1993 he established NACUA's electronic bulletin board, NACUANET, which now has more than 1500 participating members in the United States and Canada. In June 2000, he received the prestigious Distinguished Service Award from NACUA.

He serves as a member of the NCAA General Counsel Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Arizona Corporate Counsel Forum. In addition, he recently concluded a term in the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

In 2002, Mr. Ward received the Thomas S. Biggs Award at the Stetson University College of Law, National Conference on Law and Higher Education. The Award, named in honor of the former General Counsel of the University of Florida, signifies "Dedicated Legal Service to the University Community with highest and constant regard for individual morality and institutional integrity and the dignity of each student and colleague."

Mr. Ward graduated from the Southern Methodist University School of Law (J.D., 1975) and Eastern Illinois University (B.S., 1971; M.A., 1974). He has been admitted to practice law in Arizona, Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court.