Familiar Faces, New Roles: Queenan Leads Academic Affairs, Taranto Guides Student Affairs

Albany Law School’s Board of Trustees and President and Dean Alicia Ouellette confirmed Jenean Taranto as the next Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Rosemary Queenan as the next Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. Deans Taranto and Queenan began their respective roles on August 1.

Taranto joined the Albany Law School faculty in July 2000 and has taught Property, Introduction to Lawyering, Negotiation, and Legal Profession. Prior to joining the faculty, she was in private practice for over 10 years. She served as an associate at Thuillez, Ford, Gold and Conolly in Albany and at Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman and Kalur in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also a consultant to law firms throughout Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts specializing in real estate issues.

In 2019, Taranto received the Law School’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Queenan, the previous Associate Dean of Student Affairs, joined Albany Law School in 2007 and has recently taught courses on Federal Civil Procedure, Lawyers as Leaders: The Practice of Leadership, and Appellate Practice, among others.

Prior to joining the law school, she was Assistant General Counsel for the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Inc., where she represented the Union in various court actions and arbitrations, and advised the Board of Trustees on issues involving the Union’s affiliated Health and Welfare Funds.

She also served as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York Attorney General’s Office.
Before that she was an associate in two private litigation firms, where she represented clients in commercial, products liability, and general negligence actions.

She began teaching in 1999 as an adjunct faculty member at New York Law School.