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LAW SCHOOL: SPECIAL NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS

President Darden invited the attention of the Visitors to their Resolution of 12 April 1958
creating three special chairs in the School of Law, and directing the President to nominate for
these chairs, which would carry special remuneration for the summer months, three professors whose
scholarly attainments and promise of future contributions to legal literature and the law teaching
profession should especially entitle them to this distinction

In response to nominations by the President, the Board thereupon resolved that the following
professors be and they are hereby elected to the three special professorships to bear title as
follows

Mr. Frederick Deane Goodwin Ribble, as James Madison Professor of Law, Mr. Hardy Cross
Dillard, as James Monroe Professor of Law, and Mr. Charles Oscar Gregory as John Barbee Minor
Professor of Law.