Faulkner Names President

MOBILE, Ala. — Faulkner University, which has an extension campus in Mobile, has named Dennis Mitchell Henry its ninth president in the institution’s 80-year history, effective in May. Henry, an associate professor at the school, currently teaches law. He has also taught dispute resolution as an adjunct law professor at Faulkner’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law and serves as a professor of practice at Auburn University’s College of Agriculture Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology teaching agriculture law. Finally, he is a practicing attorney and founding member of Webster, Henry, Bradwell, Cohan, Speagle and DeShazo PC, where he specializes in insurance defense, business litigation, estate planning and agriculture law.