Elizabeth Garrett dies, Cornell University Admiral Elizabeth Garrett, the aboriginal woman to authority that position and a above provost of USC, has died of colon cancer, Cornell admiral said Monday. She was 52.
Garrett, who became admiral of the Ivy League academy July 1, died Sunday night at her home, Cornell said.
A acknowledged scholar, Garrett came to USC's law academy from University of Chicago Law Academy in 2003 and was appointed USC provost in 2010. Her abandonment to become Cornell's aboriginal woman admiral was appear four years later. She died afterwards alone a few months on the job.
Upon abrogation USC, she had told a anchorman that, as a above undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma, she never absurd she would arch an Ivy League school. "It feels great," she said.
Garrett abounding the University of Virginia Academy of Law and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall afore ascent through university authoritative ranks in Chicago and L.A. on her way to Ithaca. She aswell served on the California Fair Political Practices Commission from 2009 to 2013.
"While Beth's administration as admiral has tragically been cut short, her efforts over the endure eight months accept set the university on a aisle against connected excellence," said Robert Harrison, administrator of the Cornell lath of trustees. "She will leave a abiding bequest on our admired academy and will be awfully missed."
Cornell, in axial New York, planned a moment of blackout Monday afternoon and a canonizing account at a afterwards date.
Garrett declared herself as a fan of hiking, adornment and abstruseness novels. Her husband, Andrei Marmor, teaches at Cornell's law school.
Garrett, who became admiral of the Ivy League academy July 1, died Sunday night at her home, Cornell said.
A acknowledged scholar, Garrett came to USC's law academy from University of Chicago Law Academy in 2003 and was appointed USC provost in 2010. Her abandonment to become Cornell's aboriginal woman admiral was appear four years later. She died afterwards alone a few months on the job.
Upon abrogation USC, she had told a anchorman that, as a above undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma, she never absurd she would arch an Ivy League school. "It feels great," she said.
Garrett abounding the University of Virginia Academy of Law and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall afore ascent through university authoritative ranks in Chicago and L.A. on her way to Ithaca. She aswell served on the California Fair Political Practices Commission from 2009 to 2013.
"While Beth's administration as admiral has tragically been cut short, her efforts over the endure eight months accept set the university on a aisle against connected excellence," said Robert Harrison, administrator of the Cornell lath of trustees. "She will leave a abiding bequest on our admired academy and will be awfully missed."
Cornell, in axial New York, planned a moment of blackout Monday afternoon and a canonizing account at a afterwards date.
Garrett declared herself as a fan of hiking, adornment and abstruseness novels. Her husband, Andrei Marmor, teaches at Cornell's law school.
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