John Dalton is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs. He supervises the Registrar’s Office and the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), oversees the programming put on by OSA, and engages in support and advising for students navigating a range of personal, academic, and health challenges. Prior to his appointment as Associate Dean, John served as the inaugural Director of Academic Success at Stanford Law School, where he helped to provide academic and bar advising, as well as academic support programming and counseling.

Before returning to Stanford Law, he spent over ten years working as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), where he worked primarily as a capital litigator and on EJI’s racial justice and education projects. Before working at EJI, he spent 15 months working as a corporate transactional associate at Davis Polk in their Menlo Park office. Prior to practicing, he clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, JD ‘64, of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California.

John spent his first year of law school at UC Davis School of Law before transferring to Stanford Law School. He was a member of Stanford Law Review and a student in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 2009. He is a member of the California Bar and Alabama Bar.