Deborah Flemma Stanley is an American lawyer and academic administrator who served as president of the

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from August 1, 1997 until December 2021. In December 2022, she was awarded the honorary title of President Emeritus. She also served as Interim Chancellor of the

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from January 2022 to January 2023.

Early life and education

Stanley was born and raised in

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. She earned a B.A. in

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from

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and a JD from

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in 1977. She is admitted to the

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Career

Stanley was appointed president at SUNY Oswego on August 1, 1997, after serving on an interim basis from 1995 to 1997. She previously served as vice president for Academic Affairs,

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, and executive assistant to the president. Stanley served as a commissioner for the

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, and was a member of

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Women Presidents group. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Alliance Bank and Metropolitan Development Association, and is Vice President of the Metropolitan Development Foundation of Syracuse. In 2019, Stanley was named as a co-chair of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, a division of the

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. On December 20, 2021, the State University of New York Board of Trustees appointed Stanley as Interim Chancellor, after the resignation of

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. She served in that position from January 2022 to January 2023, until a permanent chancellor could be hired.

Awards

In 2022, she received the Donna Shavlik Award from the

References

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