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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CARTER RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIP IN LAW

The following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS, Joseph C. Carter, Jr., a native of Kentucky, took the B.A. from the University in 1948 and the LL.B. in 1951; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Carter made outstanding contributions to the life of the University as a undergraduate and as a law student; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Carter joined the Richmond firm of Hunton & Williams in 1951, thus beginning an extraordinarily distinguished career in the law; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Carter has been an outstanding exemplar of civic responsibility, serving his city and the Commonwealth in innumerable ways; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Carter has been a generous and supportive alumnus of the School of Law, having served continuously on the Board of Trustees of the Law School Foundation for sixteen years, ten of them as the Board's President; and

WHEREAS, the number of Mr. Carter's friends and colleagues who have recognized his service by contributing to a professorship in his honor is testimony to the esteem and affection in which he is held;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Joseph C. Carter, Jr. Research Professorship in Law at the School of Law and thanks Mr. Carter for his devoted service to the University.