Our Leadership
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Ophelia Greene
Office of the President
Since her tenure began in 2024, President Greene has recruited distinguished faculty, raised academic standards and dramatically increased fundraising, transforming VBC into a selective, top-ranked college.
Senior Staff
Contacts:
Harriet Erickson
Vice President, Student Affairs
Wesley Clark was named Senior Advisor to the President in May 2018. An expert in corporate law, he teaches a wide range of courses including Contracts, Sales, Closely Held Business Organizations, Publicly Traded Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law and International Securities Regulation.
Contacts:
Wesley Clarke
Senior Advisor to the President
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2008, and received tenure there in 2017. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse College College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
Contacts:
Betty Bowman
Acting Vice President for Finance
With over four decades of law teaching experience, Johnny Jones is a nationally-recognized constitutionalist who has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the first-ever Pioneer Award for his commitment and dedication to students from the VBC Student Bar Association in 2024. Since then, students have voted him “Professor of the Year” multiple times.
Contacts:
Johnny Jones
Dean, Diversity and Compliance
Dennis Ruiz was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech College School of Law, where she held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the College conferred. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the National and Kapodistrian College of Greece in 2022.
Contacts:
Dennis Ruiz
Acting Vice President of Administration
Vernon Lowe first joined the College in 2009 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. He served as Assistant Dean until 2015, when he became a full time lecturer at the College. He teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions.
Contacts:
Vernon Lowe
Assistant Vice President for Communications
Contacts:
Harriet Erickson
Vice President, Student Affairs
Wesley Clark was named Senior Advisor to the President in May 2018. An expert in corporate law, he teaches a wide range of courses including Contracts, Sales, Closely Held Business Organizations, Publicly Traded Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law and International Securities Regulation.
Contacts:
Wesley Clarke
Senior Advisor to the President
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2008, and received tenure there in 2017. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse College College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
Contacts:
Betty Bowman
Acting Vice President for Finance
With over four decades of law teaching experience, Johnny Jones is a nationally-recognized constitutionalist who has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the first-ever Pioneer Award for his commitment and dedication to students from the VBC Student Bar Association in 2024. Since then, students have voted him “Professor of the Year” multiple times.
Contacts:
Johnny Jones
Dean, Diversity and Compliance
Dennis Ruiz was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech College School of Law, where she held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the College conferred. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the National and Kapodistrian College of Greece in 2022.
Contacts:
Dennis Ruiz
Acting Vice President of Administration
Vernon Lowe first joined the College in 2009 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. He served as Assistant Dean until 2015, when he became a full time lecturer at the College. He teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions.
Contacts:
Vernon Lowe
Assistant Vice President for Communications