Sova McCabe joined the University of New Hampshire faculty in 2007 and has been a tenured full professor since 2012. In addition to her teaching, research and service, she spent a combined five years in two associate dean roles at the public, land-grant, flagship university.

Among her accomplishments as associate dean for academic affairs, from 2014-17, and associate dean for academic administration and special projects from 2012-14, she oversaw the school’s transition from a stand-alone private law school to part of a public research institution; was responsible for ensuring institutional compliance with external accreditation standards; and fostered a culture of proactive engagement.

Her extensive publishing record includes doctrinal, interdisciplinary and pedagogical articles and blog posts. While at UNH, her teaching portfolio has included courses in Administrative Process, Agriculture and Food Law, Writing for Practice and an Administrative Law Clinic in partnership with the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food. She has instructed both law and graduate students through her service as affiliate faculty at the university’s Carsey School of Public Policy, a Food and Society Initiative faculty fellow at the university’s Sustainability Institute and a faculty fellow at the law school’s Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service.

Prior to her academic career, Sova McCabe served as an attorney for the New Hampshire Department of Safety and practiced privately. She is a member of the Maine Bar and the New Hampshire Bar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College (1992). She earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law (1995), where she was articles editor for the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal.