Lisa Kloppenberg serves as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit and Catholic university in Silicon Valley. From 2013-19, she was Dean of its law school. Kloppenberg also served for a decade as Dean at the University of Dayton, a Catholic and Marianist university in Ohio. Kloppenberg earned tenure at the University of Oregon and is a national expert in conflict resolution and constitutional law. She has
written several books and numerous articles and essays; she co-authored a textbook on negotiation, mediation and arbitration. She has engaged in extensive service to the legal academy and profession relating to access to justice issues, curricular reform, and access, equity and affordability issues in legal education.
She and her husband, Mark Zunich, have three children.