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University of Arizona officials have named five finalists for the next dean of the James E. Rogers College of Law.

The finalists — who include one woman and one UA law professor — will visit campus over the next six weeks to meet with university officials and other members of the law school's community, according to news release.

The finalists are:

• Gregory Hicks, interim dean of the University of Washington School of Law. Hicks, who has been a visiting law professor at the UA, specializes in property, water, natural resources and public lands law.

• Marc Miller, the UA's Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law. Miller, who has advised the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, specializes in criminal procedure, sentencing law and environmental policy.

• Rex Perschbacher, law professor at the University of California-Davis School of Law. Perschbacher, who has served as dean of UC-Davis' law school, specializes in civil procedure, civil rights, legal education and ethics.

• Lawrence Ponoroff, dean of Tulane University School of Law. Ponoroff, who in 2004 was appointed to the U.S. Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules to the Judicial Conference, specializes in commercial litigation and general corporate practice.

• Margaret Raymond, law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. Raymond, who served as a law clerk to deceased U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional criminal procedure and substantive criminal law.

The five were selected by a search committee after current school dean Toni Massaro announced in October that she would be stepping down to focus on teaching and research.

Massaro became the first woman to lead the college when she took over in 1999 and is widely credited with bolstering both the college's academic reputation and private funding.

Massaro, a Regents Professor who holds the Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, plans to continue to teach at the UA.

The law school position is one of two open deanships that UA officials plan to fill this year. The other is in the UA's College of Nursing.

Both openings were announced before the university initiated a hiring freeze last fall in the face of state budget cuts.