Bradley J. Lingo '00, President

Bradley J. Lingo became the College’s 10th president in July of 2025, following a distinguished career in law and academia.

Before returning to lead his alma mater, Lingo served as dean of Regent University School of Law. Under his leadership, Regent Law set records for enrollment and rose more than 45 places in the U.S. News rankings. While at Regent, Lingo was named professor of the year, his scholarship won the faculty excellence award, and he was twice named to the  “Virginia 500 Power List” of Virginia’s most influential leaders.

As an academic, his scholarship and advocacy focus on constitutional law and religious liberty. He co-founded Regent’s Center for Constitutional Law, where he filed briefs on behalf of former members of Congress, religious organizations such as Campus Crusade for Christ, Young Life, InterVarsity, and in U.S. Supreme Court cases such as Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, and Groff v. DeJoy. He has published in outlets such as Wake Forest Law Review, George Mason Law Review Forum, Regent University Law Review, National Review Online, and World.

Before joining the Regent faculty, Lingo was a partner in King & Spalding’s Trial and Global Disputes practice group. He routinely represented accounting firms and financial institutions in high-stakes litigation—including matters for three Big Four accounting firms where more than $1 billion was at stake. He also litigated many pro bono and religious liberty matters in private practice. Accounts of that work have appeared on the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. 

A native of northeast Ohio, Lingo graduated first in his class and summa cum laude from Grove City College in 2000 with a degree in business-economics. “As a student, I found professors who believed in me and friends who encouraged me in my faith, and I experienced the joy of working hard to pursue excellence in a Christian community. I am honored to return to Grove City and ensure that future generations of students will receive the Christian, conservative, academically excellent, affordable education that profoundly shaped me,” Lingo said.

After graduating from Grove City, Lingo earned his J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School, where he was an executive editor of The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. After law school, Lingo served as a law clerk to Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson Dunn.

He and his wife, Yvonne, have three daughters, ages 9, 13, and 14.