Frank A. Roth is General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Lehigh University. Frank was appointed as Lehigh’s first General Counsel in 2001. As the University’s chief legal officer reporting to the President and Board of Trustees, he provides legal advice to the University, its Board of Trustees, corporate officers, colleges, and academic and administrative departments.
Prior to joining Lehigh, Frank was Drexel University’s first General Counsel and served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Drexel from 1996 to 2001. He also served from 1998 to 2001 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of MCP Hahnemann University, which was operated by Drexel University. Prior to serving at Drexel, he was Assistant General Counsel and Associate General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1996. From 1983 to 1986, he was an associate attorney with the Philadelphia law firms of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, and Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer in Higher Education Law at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
Frank has been a NACUA member since 1987. He has served on various committees, including the NACUANOTES Editorial Board and the Committee on Program for Annual Conference. Frank currently serves on the Committee on Board Operations, Committee on Legal Education and the Committee on Strategic Planning. He has also spoken and moderated at various sessions of NACUA Annual Conferences, CLE workshops and General Counsel Institutes.
Frank received his B.A. degree with highest honors from Lehigh University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.