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W&L Engagement

Student:

• Contact Committee
• Omicron Delta Kappa
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Phi Delta Theta
• Phi Eta Sigma
• Pi Sigma Alpha
• Varsity Tennis Team

 

Alumnus: 

• Alumni Admissions Program, Chair (1993 - 1995), Member
• Alumni Board, President (1997 - 1998), Member (1994 - 1998)
• Annual Fund, Class Agent (2001 - 2004, 2015 - 2021)
• Area Campaign Committee, Member (1992 - 1995, 2002 - 2003)
• Chapter Volunteers, Board Member (1992 - 2019)
• Greek Housing Corp (President)
• Reunion Commitee, Chair (40th), Member (25th, 30th, 35th)
• Washington and Lee School of Law, Adjunct Professor (1992)
• Williams School Advisory Board, Member (2017 - 2023)
• Williams School Executive-in-Residence (2021)

 

Why do you want to be a trustee?

Perhaps the better question is whether one should be a trustee. There are good reasons why one might want to be a trustee, but the inquiry focuses best on how the individual could steward the University, regardless of what she or he desires. The University is at the threshold of a new stage in its history, one informed by recent trauma—the pandemic, the name-change issue—but one governed by an institutional DNA with a much longer arc. That arc is something that one holds in trust for future generations one cannot see—hence the title “trustee.” A trustee is neither owner nor executive but more like a steward. Maintaining trust is something that deeply appeals to me professionally and personally, especially when the “corpus” of the trust is something as valuable and profound, both in the past and in the future, as Washington and Lee.

Describe the experience and perspective you bring.

As a white-collar defense and government-investigations lawyer for the past three decades, I have defended and balanced critical competing interests. This work has often been in the public arena—Whitewater, impeachment, police brutality, election interference and January 6—where friends are few and sound process and reasonable outcomes the only things that matter. People love W&L. That love generates passion and competing interests in the moment. My experience allows me calm when confronted with passion and patience in the face of the moment’s urgency. In terms of perspective, my W&L vision is multilayered. Not only have I been an active alumnus nationally and locally, I have taught (and recruited) at the Law School and I have been an Executive-in-Residence at the Williams School. My two children graduated recently (2020 and 2022). Through them and their classmates, and perhaps to a greater extent than most other applicants, I have deep and immediate understanding of current student life, faculty dynamics, and institutional needs.

 

 

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