UVA Law alumnus looks back at founding group that started conversations about race
UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumnus Ted Small ’92 started a student group in 1989 to bridge racial divides. Small looks back on founding Students United to Promote Racial Awareness, which started conversations about race at the law school.
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UVA LAWYER — UVA Law alumnus and now-retired corporate counsel Alfonso Carney Jr. ’74 views his successful career and subsequent public service as stemming from debts of gratitude he owes — to friends, family members, mentors and institutions who helped him along the way.
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UVA LAYWER — UVA Law alumni Errol and Kim Phipps ’91 have enjoyed successful careers as lawyers. Errol has risen to vice president and associate general counsel at AT&T. Kim serves as a litigator at Liberty Mutual. They became the multigenerational black family with both parents to have attended UVA Law.
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UVA LAWYER — These alumni are a rarity for UVA Law: African-American judges who are husband and wife. Judge Raymond Jackson ’73 sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Gwendolyn Jones Jackson ’72 is retired from the Norfolk General District Court, but still hears cases as a substitute judge.…
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UVA LAWYER — Gregory Hayes Swanson ‘ was the first black man to integrate the University of Virginia. Having obtained his law degree from Howard University, Swanson needed a master’s in law to be eligible for a prospective teaching job. Swanson sued UVA Law for his right to a graduate education and won.
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UVA LAWYER — Elaine Ruth Jones ’70 was the first black woman to attend UVA Law. In her three-decade career with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Jones made a difference in thousands of lives in criminal and civil cases. Jones eventually became the first woman to rise to director-counsel and president.
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — S.J. Quinney Law alumnus Raymond Uno ’67 will receive an honorary doctorate degree at the 2018 commencement ceremony. Uno had a successful legal career as a referee of the juvenile court, deputy Salt Lake County attorney, assistant attorney general of Utah and in private practice.
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — S.J. Quinney Law alumnus Parker Douglas discusses his time in law school, his most memorable professors, and his current work assignment as a 2017-2018 fellow in the Supreme Court Fellows Program, which is designed to give mid-career professionals a chance to better understand the judicial system.
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UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW — TU Law alumna and immigration attorney Lorena Rivas ’12 is the recipient of the 2018 Fern Holland Award for her work in human rights and the empowerment of women. Rivas said her parents support and inspire her work on behalf of immigrants in the United States
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UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW — TU Law alumnus Dalton Downing ’18 was recently honored as the most outstanding student of the year. Downing graduated from TU Law with highest honors and was selected for a bevy of awards including first place in the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni national writing competition.
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