Educator and scholar Walter Leonard has served as assistant dean of both the Howard University School of Law (1968 to 1969) and Harvard University Law School (1969 to 1971).  At Harvard Law School he is credited - through the use of conferences, recruitment and outreach programs - with the education of more minority and women lawyers than almost any other administrator in the United States. From 1978-1984, Leonard served as President of Fisk University.