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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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