An award-winning legal educator and Marshall Scholar, and dean of the William & Mary Law School since 2020, A. Benjamin Spencer is responsible for providing academic and executive leadership for the school, with a $40-million budget and $102-million endowment. In this role, he is accountable for generating and raising sufficient capital to fund the enterprise, recruiting and retaining talented students, faculty and staff, ensuring functional operations and customer satisfaction, and fostering successful outcomes—employment and licensure—for the school’s graduates.

Mr. Spencer has served on the governing boards of the Association of Marshall Scholars, the Virginia State Bar, Piedmont Court Appointed Special Advocates and the Girl Scouts Commonwealth Council. He is currently a member of the West Academic Law School Advisory Board and British Ambassador’s Advisory Council, and he serves as chair of the Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee for the Washington, D.C., region.

Mr. Spencer also serves as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps. 

Mr. Spencer has been a director of Southern Company Gas since January 2025.