GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College on Monday announced the selection of Bradley J. Lingo as the college’s 10th president after a unanimous vote of the board of trustees.
Lingo will replace Paul J. McNulty, an alumnus of the college who served as the school’s ninth president since 2014.
“Brad rose to the top of the search committee’s deep candidate pool because of a unique combination of experience and characteristics that make him the right leader for the next chapter of Grove City College’s story,” said Edward D. Breen, chair of the Grove City College Board of Trustees and the board’s presidential search committee. “He brings a vibrant commitment to Christian orthodoxy, tight alignment with the college’s conservative vision and character, extraordinary professional experience and sophistication and a keen understanding of higher education and the challenges and opportunities facing Grove City College.”
Lingo currently serves as the dean of Regent University School of Law. Under his leadership, Regent Law has set records for enrollment, median incoming GPA and LSAT scores, U.S. News rankings and employment outcomes. He will complete the academic year at Regent before joining Grove City College in July 2025. A formal inauguration will occur later in the academic year.
“My life was transformed through Grove City College,” Lingo said. “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, a native of northeastern Ohio, graduated summa cum laude from Grove City College in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in business-economics. He earned his J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the flagship academic journal of The Federalist Society.
After law school, Lingo served as a law clerk to Judge Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Before joining the Regent Law faculty in 2019, he was a litigation partner at King & Spalding LLP and practiced law in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson Dunn.
Lingo’s selection concludes a nationwide search by the board’s presidential search committee, which included representatives from the Grove City College board, faculty and Alumni Association, with support from CarterBaldwin Executive Search.