University of Georgia Law fund honors first Black graduate
UGA TODAY — The University of Georgia School of Law has named its iconic rotunda after its first Black graduate, Chester C. Davenport. A portrait of Davenport is being commissioned and will eventually hang in the space located at the main entrance to the law school.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW — James C. Hormel, ’58, a philanthropist and LGBTQ+ activist who served as the University of Chicago Law School’s first full-time dean of students and America’s first openly gay ambassador, died in San Francisco Friday morning. He was 88.
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LAW — Teresa A. Miller, a longtime UB faculty member and SUNY’s senior vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and chief diversity officer for the past three years, died Aug. 6 after battling cancer. She was 59.
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YALE DAILY NEWS — Donald Kagan, Sterling professor emeritus of classics and history, former dean of Yale College died on Aug. 6. He was 89 years old.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — On June 8, University of Virginia professor emerita Mildred Robinson, received the Armstead Robinson Faculty Award, named for her late husband. The Black Faculty and Staff Employee Resource Group at UVA bestows the award to a faculty member who has contributed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and who has had a positive impact on…
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Mildred Robinson receives Armstead Robinson Faculty Award named after late husbandIn Memoriam: Gail D. Hollister
FORDHAM LAW NEWS –The Fordham Law community is mourning the passing of Professor Gail D. Hollister ’70, longtime Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law and Murray Professor of Law Emerita. Hollister was a member of the Fordham Law faculty for 40 years—from 1977 until her retirement in 2017.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Professor Ronald Turner has passed away. He was 66 years old.
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CONCORD MONITOR — If you never had a chance to meet UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law Professor Marcus Hurn, read through the public Facebook page memorializing his life and you’ll likely wish you had. Hurn, 68, died on Feb. 11, and since his death, stories of the lives he changed around Concord have been pouring…
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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — The Michigan State University College of Law community joins representatives of the Michigan legal profession in recognizing the many achievements of former state attorney general Frank J. Kelley, who died on Friday at the age of 96.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The Santa Clara University School of Law has lost one of its great friends, graduate Justice Eugene M. Premo BA ’57, JD ’62. He passed away on January 25, 2021, and is mourned by the Law School and the Santa Clara County legal community after his 50 years of…
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