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InDecember 1989,LewisF.PoweU]r., '29, '31L,
announced his intention to have his prof essianal and
personal papers housed at his alma mater, Washington
and Lee University, providing the University with the
special opportunity to honor the man and his life's work.
The result is the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, a func
tional addition to one of the nation's finest law schools.
Serving as a place of research, teaching, and counseling,
the Lewis Hall addition serves as a fitting tribute to one
of the University's most important graduates.
"My intention to leave my papers to the law school
at Washington and Lee is based primarily on the plans
to add an addition to the law school building that will
house my papers and provide facilities for appropriate
research," Powell has said. "My six years on the campus
were among the happiest of my life. I have a deep and
abiding affection for the college that bears the names
of George Washington and Robert E. Lee."
Past Faculty
John W. Brockenbrough, 1849-73 John Randolph Tucker, 1870-97 Charles A. Graves, 1873-99 William Preston Johnson, 1875-80 John W. Davis, 1896-97 Henry St. George Tucker, 1897-1902 William R. Vance, 1897-1903 William L. Clark Jr., 1898 Martin Parks Burks, 1899-1917 Joseph R. Long, 1902-23 Abram Penn Staples, 1903-13 Robert W. Withers, 1912-14 D. Clovis Moomaw, 1914-17 Holden B. Schermerhorn, 1914-16 William Haywood Moreland, 1914-44 Edwin M. Dodd, 1916-18 James Quarles, 1917-19 Clayton Epes Williams, 1919-68 Lewis Tyree, 1919-27 Lewis B. Cox, 1920-21 James B. Noell, 1921-22 Thomas X. Parsons, 1922-23 Homer A. Holt, 1923-25 Albert Levitt, 1924-2 7 Raymon T. Johnson, 1925-48 T.C. Billig, 1925-26 Charles P. Light Jr., 1926-73 Charles R. McDowell, 1927-68 Robert Hanes Gray, 1937-40, 1963-73 Theodore A. Smedley, 1939-58 Charles V. Laughlin, 1940-78 Claude E. Hobbs Jr., 1940-41 Branson B. Holder, 1945-46 Joseph H. Wolfe, 1949-51 Edward S. Graves, 1948-85 Wanda Lee Spears, 1948-52 George S. Wolbert, 1951-53
School of Law Faculty H. Milton Colvin, 1951-56 E. McGruder Faris, 1952-57 James W.H. Stewart, 1953-87 Lewis S. Minter, 1957-58 Robert E.R. Huntley, 1958-83 Philip K. Yonge, 1962-63 Robert K. Rushing, 1963-69 Archibald F. Robertson, 1963-66 Lawrence D. Gaughan, 1970-80 James E. Bond, 1971-74 PeytonR. Neal Jr., 1972-77 Benjamin M. Vandegrift, 1972-80 Paul A. Holstein, 1972-77 Herman Kaufman, 1973-74 Lawrence K. Hellman, 1974-77 James S. Halpern, 1975-76 Robert M. Campbell, 1975-85 Nathan G. Ostroff, 1976-78 Anne Unverzagt, 1976-80 James C. Turk, 1977-80 William McC. Schildt, 1977-81 Peter G. Glenn, 1978-80 Thomas L. Shaffer, 1979-88 Catherine M.A. McCauliff, 1979-82 Samuel E. Stumpf Jr., 1980-83 Toni Marie Massaro, 1982-85 Gregory H. Stanton, 1985-91
Current Faculty
Wilfred Julius Ritz, 1953-Andrew Wolfe McThenia Jr., 1967-Lewis Henry LaRue, 1967-Roy L. Steinheimer Jr., 1968-Joseph Edward Ulrich, 1968-William W. Sweeney, 1970-Lawrence H. Hoover, 1972-
Roger 0. Groot, 1973-James M. Phemister, 1974-Henry L. Woodward, 1974-Mark H. Grunewald, 1976-Frederic L. Kirgis Jr., 1977-Edward 0. Henneman, 1977-0enis J. Brion, 1978-Samuel W. Calhoun, 1978-Sarah K. Wiant, 1978-J. Timothy Phillips, 1980-Robert C. Wood III, 1980-William S. Geimer, 1980-Steven H. Hobbs, 1981-Paul R. Thomson Jr., 1982-Brian C. Murchison, 1982-Joan M. Shaughnessy, 1983-J. Stephen Lawrence, 1985-Lyman P.Q. Johnson, 1985-Ann M. Massie, 1985-0avid K. Millon, 1986-Lyn F. Wheeler, 1986-M. Susan Palmer, 1986-Gwen T. Handelman, 1986-Doug Rendelman, 1987-Randall P. Bezanson, 1988-Judith A. McMorrow, 1988-0avid S. Caudill, 1989-Allan W. Vestal, 1989-Allan P. Ides, 1990-Scott E. Sundby, 1990-0avid A. Wirth, 1990-Mary Z. Natkin, 1990-Franklin M. Schultz, 1990-Robin Morris Collin, 1991-Louise A. Halper, 1991-Alison Kitch, 1991-Richard Delgado, 1991-Louise E. Teitz, 1991-
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Contemporary Challenges To Judging:
THURSDAY, A P R I L 2
9:00-NOON History Moot Courtroom, Lewis Hall
Introductory Remarks
Welcome JOHN D. WILSON President, WashingtonandLee University
"The Lewis F. Powell]r. Archives and the Contemporary Researcher" JOHN N. JACOB Archivist/Librarian, Washington and Lee University
"The Context of Desegregation in Richmond, Virginia" Presentations by: OLIVER HILL, ESQ. Partner, Hill, Tucker&Marsh, Richmond, Va.
THE HON. A. LINWOOD HOLTON JR. Former Governor of Virginia (1970-74), President, Center for Innovative Technology
THE HON. ROBERT R. MERHIGE JR. United States District Court, Eastern District, Virginia
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 3
Politics 9:00-NOON Moot Courtroom, Lewis Hall
"The Political and Historical Context of the Powell Years on the Supreme Court"
Presentation by: L.A. SCOT POWE Anne Green Regents Chair, University ofTexas
Comment by: JOHN CAL VIN JEFFRIES JR. Emerson G. Spies Professorand] ohn V. Ray Research Professor, University of Virginia
MARK H. GRUNEWALD Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
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History, Politics, and Values
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 3
1:30-3:30 Moot Courtroom, Lewis Hall
"Centrist]udgingin the Powell Years"
Panelists: JEANC.LOVE Prof essorofLaw, University of Iowa
STEVEN H. HOBBS Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
ALLAN IDES Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
S A T U R D A Y, A P R I L 4
Values
Moderator:
8:30-12:15 Keller Theater, Lenfest Center
RANDALL P. BEZANSON Dean and Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
Keynote Speaker:
THE HON. WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Chief] us tice, United States Supreme Court
Panelists: THE HON. J. HARVIE WILKINSON United States Court of Appeals forthe Fourth Circuit
THE HON. WILLIAM B. HILL JR. State Court of Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia
JOAN M. SHAUGHNESSY Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
JUDITH RESNIK Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, University of Southern California
SANFORD LEVINSON Angus G. Wynne Sr. Professorin]urisprudence, University of Texas
DENISJ. BRION Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University
CATHARINE P. WELLS Professor of Law, University of Southern California
Symposium Speakers
Denis J. Brion is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee Univer
sity. He is the author of the recently published book, Essential Industry and the NIMBY Phenomenon. Professor Brion's principal field
of teaching is property law, and his scholarship includes a number of
articles in the area of law and semiotics. He is a graduate of North
western University and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Mark H. Grunewald is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He has published several major studies as a consultant to
the Administrative Conference of the United States. A graduate of
George Washington University National Law Center, Professor
Grunewald worked in the office of Legal Counsel of the Justice
Department before joining the W&L faculty.
Oliver Hill, a partner with the Richmond, Va., law firm of Hill,
Tucker & Marsh, played a central part in the quest for desegregation
in Virginia. An alumnus of Howard University and Howard Univer
sity Law School, he was chairman of the Legal Committee of the Vir
ginia State Conference of the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People for over 20 years. He also served on the
Richmond City Council, the Richmond Citizens Association, and
the Richmond City Democratic Committee. Mr. Hill has received
numerous awards and citations for outstanding public service.
William B. Hill Jr. is a Judge of the State Court of Fulton
County in Atlanta, Georgia. An alumnus of Washington and Lee
University and Washington and Lee School of Law, Judge Hill has
served as Georgia Deputy Attorney General. He was also a member
of the American Bar Association Task Force on Dead, Penalty
Habeas Corpus.
Steven H. Hobbs is Associate Professor of Law at Washington and
Lee University. Professor Hobbs graduated from Harvard and the
University of Pennsylvania Law School. He teaches family law,
professional responsibility, and corporate law. His scholarship
includes work on Marcus Garvey, Charles Hamilton Houston, and
ethics in family law.
A. Linwood Holton Jr., long known as a progressive Republican
and political consensus builder, was governor of Virginia from 1970
to 1974. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Washington and
Lee University, and a law degree from Harvard University, he practiced
law in Roanoke for 15 years before becoming the Commonwealth's chief
executive. Holton is now president of the Center for Innovative
Technology and chairman of the Metropolitan Airports Authority.
Allan Ides is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University.
After obtaining his undergraduate degree at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles, and his master's and law degrees at Loyola
University of California, Professor Ides clerked for Judge Clement
Haynesworth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
and for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. His principal field of
teaching and scholarship is constitutional law.
John Jacob is archivist for the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Collection
at Washington and Lee University School of Law. He previously
served as archivist librarian for the George C. Marshall Research
Foundation at the Virginia Military Institute. Mr. Jacob holds
bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
John C. Jeffries Jr. is the Emerson G. Spies Professor and John V. Ray Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
He was Justice Lewis Powell's law clerk in 1973-74 and is currently at
work on a biography of Justice Powell. His areas of teaching include
civil procedure, civil rights, and criminal law. Professor Jeffries is a
graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and is co-author
of a casebook on criminal law.
Sanford Levinson is the Angus G. Wyrme Sr. Professor in Jurispru
dence at the University of Texas School of Law. His book, Constitu
tional Faith, arrracted wide attention when it was published in 1988.
Professor Levinson teaches in the areas of constitutional law and legal
history. He received his law degree from Stanford and his Ph.D. from
Harvard, where he taught last semester as a visiting professor of law.
Jean C. LOSJe is Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of
Law. The co-author of books on arms inspection, equitable remedies,
and the Anglo-American legal process, Professor Love has also
written in the area of torts and participated in the 1990 Frances
Lewis Law Center symposium on offensive speech. She is a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Robert R. Merhige Jr. is a senior judge on the United States Dis
trict Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Appointed to the
bench in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Judge Merhige has
presided in many cases of national importance, including the Virginia
school desegregation litigation early in his career. Groups such as
the National Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Associa
tion, and the American Judicature Society have honored Judge
Merhige for his professionalism and contributions to the law.
L.A. Scot Powe Jr. holds the Anne Green Regents Chair at the
University of Texas School of Law. His undergraduate degree is
from Yale and his law degree is from the University of Washington.
After clerking for Justice William 0. Douglas, he joined the
University of Texas faculty. His subjects include constitutional law
and federal jurisdiction. He is the author of a prize-winning book,
American Broadcasting and the First Amendment, and a number of law
review articles.
William H. Rehnquist was appointed Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court in 1971 by President Richard M.
Nixon. Fifteen years lacer he was named Chief Justice by President
Ronald Reagan. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Chief Justice
Rehnquist was a law clerk for Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson
and a lawyer in private practice for many years. From 1969 to 1971,
he served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney
General. Among his writings is the recent book, The Supreme Court:
How It Was, How It ls.
Judith Resnik is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the
University of Southern California Law Center. Her scholarship
includes articles on civil procedure, federal courts, and feminist
jurisprudence. The co-author of a major casebook on procedure,
Professor Resnik is a graduate of New York University Law School
and clerked for Judge Charles E. Stewart Jr. of the Southern Disttict
of New York.
Joan M. Shaughnessy is Associate ProfessorofLaw at Washington
and Lee University. Her areas of teaching are civil procedure, evi-
dence, and trial advocacy, and she has written in the field of feminist
jurisprudence. Professor Shaughnessy is a graduate of the University
of Chicago Law School and worked for the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb,
Steen & Hamilton in New York before joining the W&L faculty.
Catharine H. Wells is Professor of Law at the University of
Southern California Law Center. She has a master's degree and
Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a law degree
from Harvard. Professor Wells has written a number of articles
about jurisprudence, including work on Justice Holmes and on the
role of context in judging.
James Harvie Wilkinson III was appointed by President Ronald
Reagan in 1983 to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit. A graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School
of Law, Judge Wilkinson was a law clerk for Justice
Powell and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Rights Division, in the
U.S. Department of Justice. He was a
member of the University of Virginia
law faculty and has written ex
tensively in the field of
constitutional law.
Lewis E Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.,
'29, '31L, has made a dif
ference in our lives. He
"Quintessentially , the lawyer as judge. " complishments include
his years as a member of
the Richmond school JOHN C. JEFFRIES JR.
would deny it, albeit po-
litely, choosing instead to say that what he had done was
simply what the job had required of him. But whether it
was as chairman of the Richmond Public School Board
during the time of integration, or as president of the
American Bar Association, or as associate justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court, Powell made that difference, search
ing for the stable, principled ground, finding it, and
standing as a beacon in dark and troubled times.
Earning his undergraduate and law degrees from
Washington and Lee, Powell was an exemplary student.
He was magna cum laude as an undergraduate,
first in his law class, and winner of the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan medal for "high ideals, spiritual qualities, and
generous and disinterested service to others." Powell also
was manager of the baseball team, and he helped recruit
a number of outstanding individuals to the University.
Powell's public life began with the prestigious
Richmond law firm of Hunton & Williams in 1932 and
stretched for the next six decades. His noteworthy ac-
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board, his executive posi
tions with the American Bar Association, the American
College of Trial Lawyers, and the American Bar Foun
dation, and his 15 crucial years as an associate justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court. The gentlemanly Powell
brought compassion, fairness, and a commitment to
civic virtue to his work on the high court during a
period of great changes and challenges in America.
As a Supreme Court justice, he was, as former
clerk John C. Jeffries Jr. recalls, "quintessentially, the
lawyer as judge. That is, he never brought an ideological
meat cleaver to any problem but looked at the facts and
the record very carefully and the precedents and each
case as it came up."
As Time magazine said at his retirement from the
court in 1987, "For more than 15 years, Powell sought
constantly to strike a balance between conflicting in
terests as well as between the court's liberal and con
servative wings. He became ... perhaps the court's
central figure .... "
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Frances & Sydney Lewis
Former Washing
ton and Lee trustee John
Stemmons said of the gift
from Frances and Sydney
Lewis that made possible
"It has always been obvious to my friends that the most meaningful influ
ences in my Ufe have been my wife Frances and this University."
trustee of the University
from 1984 through 1989.
Their devotion to
the University is reflected
in these statements, made SYDNEY LEWIS
a new law school for W&L, "I doubt that there has ever
been a gift more meaningful to a private institution."
Indeed, the same could be said of the Lewises as
people. Their presence and service stand as among the
University's most meaningful gifts.
Through the years, the Lewises have been among
Washington and Lee's most generous benefactors, and it
was their $1 million gift in 1991 that funded the construc
tion of the wing housing the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives.
Their $9 million gift in 1972 supported the con
struction of the law school, and the school and its law
center bear their names. Sydney Lewis is the former
chairman and co-founder of Best Products Co. Inc. An
undergraduate and law alumnus of Washington and Lee,
Lewis served as a W&L trustee from 1972 through 1983.
Frances Lewis is a 1942 graduate of the University
of Michigan. She has served as executive vice president
of Best Products and as a director. She also served as a
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at the dedication of Lewis Hall 15 years ago. She said then,
"Sydney and I will receive pleasure, are receiving plea
sure, every day of our lives thinking about the ideas for
human survival, for human beings living together, that
could lie within the grasp of the law center people-for
many generations beyond ours, and that was our plan."
Through their remarkable generosity in support of
the construction of Lewis Hall, the establishment of the
Frances Lewis Law Center, and now the wing housing the
Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, the Lewises have manifested
confidence in the unique quality of the Law School and
steadfast faith in its future.
"It has always been obvious to my friends that the
most meaningful influences in my life have been my wife
Frances and this University," Sydney Lewis said at the
dedication of Lewis Hall in 1977. "To be able to con
tribute in a meaningful way to Washington and Lee is
a wonderful and exciting experience."
The Law School Association
The Law School Association serves as a source of guidance
and support for the Law School, its faculty, and its students. Cur
rently, LSA membership numbers approximately 1,200. The Asso
ciation has been active in encouraging the interest of alumni
in the law school's instructional programs and providing a
liaison between the School of Law and its alumni.
A portion of member dues each year is allotted to fund three
full-tuition scholarships. In 1976, the Association named its first
scholarship in honor of Catherine Feland McDowell. In 1987, two
additional scholarships were named in honor of former deans Charles
P. Light and Clayton E. Williams. The three scholarships honor
persons whose many years of service to the law school contributed
significantly to its growth and development. Dues also
enable the Association to provide a one-year complimentary
subscription to the W ashingtonandLeeLaw
Review to each graduate.
The Law School Association, which will celebrate its 40th The Law School Association is
governed by the Law Council. The Law
Council consists of 20 elected members,
who serve staggered four-year terms, and
three officers, the president, vice-presi-
anniversary this weekend, has served as a strong organization for
graduates and former students of the Washington and Lee University
School of Law since 19 5 3 .
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dent, and immediate past president, who
serve ex officio and are elected for a
term of one year. The Association also elects an executive secretary,
who is an employee of the School of Law.
History of the School of Law
The School of Law at Washington and Lee University had
its origin in the Lexington Law School, organized in 1849 by the
Honorable John White Brockenbrough, Judge of the District
Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia.
Brockenbrough was a learned lawyer with a great talent for law
teaching. He also was a member of the Board of Trustees of what was
then Washington College.
After Robert E. Lee became president of the college in 1865,
the Lexington Law School became affiliated with Washington
College, and in 1866, it became an integral part of the institution.
Shortly thereafter, John Randolph Tucker became the first Dean
of the School of Law. Tucker Hall, a building on the famed Wash
ington and Lee Colonnade and the former home of the School of
Law, is named in his honor. Under Tucker's leadership and that of
his successors, the School of Law has attained national recognition for
its excellence.
Today, the School of Law is housed in Lewis Hall, which was
completed in 1976. Lewis Hall contains five classrooms, several
seminar and conference rooms, and a uniquely designed Moot
Courtroom to accommodate trial and appellate practice programs.
Lewis Hall also includes the Wilbur C. Hall Law Library, which has
a collection of over 282,000 volumes, and the Frances Lewis Law
Center, which supports research and study of law reform.
Limiting its enrollment to 360 students and striving for a
student-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, Washington and Lee School of Law
has earned a reputation as one of the nation's finest law schools.
40~ REUNION
The Law CDuncil
"No profession demands so great a measure of educational freedom as the law, and it is the fortunate privilege of Washington and Lee, peculiar among institutions of comparable size, to provide for it the ideal atmosphere of independence combined with a century-long tradition of excellence in instruction."
MARTIN P. BURKS, President-19 5 2
Law Council Schedule F R I D A Y, A P R I L 3
3:30-5:00
6:30
7:30
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Law Council Meeting, Moot Courtroom
Cocktails
Law Council Reunion Dinner Moody Hall, VMI
Law School Association Officers
President: Pamela). White, '77L
Vice President: Walter D. Kelley Jr.
Immediate Past President: J. Hardin Marion, '55, 'SSL
Executive Secretary: Darlene Moore
LAW COUNCIL
(Terms Expiringin 1992) Parker A. Denaco, '6SL M. Lee Doane, '86L Robert H. Mann Jr., '55, '57L Johnny E. Morrison, '74, '77L Charles B. Tamm, '68, '75L
(Terms Expiring in 1993) Robert L. Banse, '53L Leonard C. Greenebaum, '56, 'SSL Thomas N. Mcjunkin, '70, '74L James C. Treadway Jr., '67L S. Maynard Turk, '52L
(Terms Expiring in 1994) James W. Jennings Jr., '72L Thomas M. Millhiser, '81L W. Bryce Rea Jr., '41L Elizabeth Turley, 'SOL Thomas K. Wotring, '75L
(Terms Expiring in 1995) Roberr M. Couch, '78, '82L Robin P. Hartmann, '71L Milton T. Herndon, '56L Dana C. Petersen, '82L David D. Redmond, '66, '69L
LAW COUNCIL EMERITUS
(Terms Expiringin 1992) Alexander M. Harman Jr., '44L Sydney Lewis,'40
(Terms Expiring in 199 3) Donald H. Partington, '61, '64L Richard M. Preston, '69, '76L Jeffrey L. Willis, '75L
(Terms Expiring in 1994) Ray V. Hartwell III, '69, '75L Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr., '43, '47L
(Terms Expiring in 1995) Mark B. Davis, '56, 'SSL Norman C. Roettger Jr., 'SSL
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