Fernand Dutile

Professor Emeritus

Department

Law

College or School

The Law School

Year of Emeritus Status

2011

I was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1940. I completed my undergraduate work at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and received my JD from Notre Dame Law School in 1965. Following a stint with the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice in DC, I joined the law faculty at Catholic University. I joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1971.

My teaching and writing involved mainly Criminal Law and the Law of Education. Over my forty years on the faculty, I had a variety of administrative assignments: Acting Dean and Director of ND's London Law Programme; a quarter century on the University's Academic Council; and two terms as Chair of the Faculty Board on Athletics and NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative (yielding an Honorary Monogram). I served on search committees (or similar) for the deans, provost, president, and head football coach.

As of April 2020, Brigid Dooley Dutile and I have been married for 56 years. We have two children, Dan (ND '87) and Patty (ND '89), and four grandchildren, one of whom is currently a Notre Dame Junior. Brigid's father (Bill Dooley), who graduated from Notre Dame in 1926, became the University's first Placement Director in 1937. Her mother (Kate Dooley) was a columnist for Ave Maria Magazine and later the Editor of The Courier, St. Mary's alumnae magazine.

Email: dutile.1@nd.edu