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The University of Pittsburgh School of Law was founded in 1895. In 1900, it became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. The School of Law received ABA approval in 1923. Pitt Law School is housed in the six-story Barco Law Building on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood, on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh.

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David A. Reed - (1903) - U.S. Senator (1922-1935)

Derrick Bell - (1957) - first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School

Dick Thornburgh - (1957) - Pennsylvania Governor (1979-1987), U.S. Attorney General (1988-1991)

Orrin Hatch - (1962) - U.S. Senator (1976-present)

Tom Feeney - (1983) - U.S. Representative (2002-present)

Melissa Hart - (1987) - U.S. Representative (2000-present)

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John Douglass Shafer, 1895-1920

Alexander Marshall Thompson, 1920-1940

Eugene Allen Gilmore, 1940-1942

Judson Adams Crane, 1942-1949

Charles Bernard Nutting, 1949-1951

Judson Adams Crane (Acting Dean), 1951-1952

Brainerd Currie, 1952-1953

Arthur Larson (on leave of absence 1954-56), 1953-1956

Charles Wilson Taintor II (Acting Dean), 1954-1957

Thomas McIntyre Cooley II, 1957-1965

William Edward Sell, Chairman, Administrative Committee, 1965-1966; Dean, 1966-1977

John E. Murray, Jr., 1977-1984

Richard J. Pierce, Jr., 1984-1985

Mark A. Nordenberg, 1985-1993 (Currently University Chancellor)

Richard H. Seeburger (Interim Dean), 1993-1994

Peter M. Shane, 1994-1998

David J. Herring, 1998-2005

Mary A. Crossley, 2005-