The Greenwall Foundation is pleased to welcome Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD, the Regents’ Professor Emeritus and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Emeritus at Georgia State University, to the Faculty Scholars Program Committee. The Committee oversees the Faculty Scholars Program, selects Scholars and recommends them for funding, and plays an active role in mentorship and professional development activities.
A lawyer and historian, Prof. Lombardo is known for his historical scholarship on the legal legacy of eugenics in the United States. He practiced law in California (1985-1990) and was a faculty member at the University of Virginia Schools of Law and Medicine (1990-2006) prior to joining the faculty at Georgia State University.
From 2011 to 2016, Prof. Lombardo served as a Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and has been a consultant for eight different institutes of the National Institutes of Health. Prof. Lombardo wrote Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell (2008, 2022) and edited A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (2011).
“Paul is a terrific addition to the Faculty Scholars Program Committee,” Foundation President & CEO Michelle Groman, JD, said. “His broad scholarship, policy experience, and deep commitment to mentorship will be invaluable as we support promising early-career scholars working to address some of today’s most pressing bioethics challenges.”