Before leading
Southwestern Law School, Prager served as the sixth Executive Director and CEO of the
Association of American Law Schools for six years. Prior to her service at the AALS, Prager was the
provost of
Dartmouth College. From 1982 through 1998, Prager was the dean of the
UCLA School of Law, giving her the longest tenure of any dean in UCLA Law history. Prager was the 13th President and the first woman President at
Occidental College. In 1982, Prager became the first female dean of a law school in the UC system and only one of two female law school deans in the country. When Prager left her deanship in 1998, the law school established a faculty chair in her name. In addition, during her tenure at UCLA, Prager became the second woman to serve as the president of the
Association of American Law Schools. Prager served for 14 years as a trustee of
Stanford University during which time she served as the Vice President of the Board and she chaired the board's Academic Policy Committee. Prager also worked for
U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel of
California, the minority whip in the Senate from 1959-1969, and for members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Assembly. She practiced law at Powe, Porter & Alphin in
Durham, North Carolina before returning to the
UCLA School of Law faculty, where she focused on family law, community property, and historic preservation law. == Personal life ==