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W. Taylor Reveley III

American lawyer and academic administrator

Field	Value
order	27th
image	William_%26_Mary_President_Taylor_Reveley.jpg
title	President of the College of William & Mary
term_start	September 5, 2008
term_end	June 30, 2018
predecessor	Gene Nichol
successor	Katherine Rowe
office2	20th Dean of William & Mary Law School
term_start2	August 1998
term_end2	February 2008
preceded2	Thomas G. Krattenmaker
succeeded2	Davison M. Douglas
birth_name	Walter Taylor Reveley III
birth_date
birth_place	Churchville, Virginia, U.S.
father	W. Taylor Reveley II
spouse	Helen Martin Bond
children	Walter Taylor IV, George Everett Bond, Nelson Martin Eason, Helen Lanier
profession	Lawyer and Educator
education	Princeton University (BA)
University of Virginia (JD)

University of Virginia (JD) Walter Taylor Reveley III (born January 6, 1943) is an American legal scholar and former lawyer. He served as the twenty-seventh president of the College of William & Mary. Formerly Dean of its law school from August 1998 to February 2008, Reveley was appointed interim president of William & Mary on February 12, 2008, following Gene Nichol's resignation earlier that day, and was elected the university's 27th president by the Board of Visitors on September 5, 2008. While president, Reveley continued his service as the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the law school.

Reveley's areas of academic specialty include the constitutional division of authority between the President and Congress over the use of American armed force abroad, administrative and energy law, and the role of the citizen lawyer.

Career

Reveley graduated with an A.B. in politics from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis titled "Between North and South: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development." He then received his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1968. He has honorary doctorates from Hampden-Sydney College, King University and the College of William & Mary. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, and ODK.

Reveley was an assistant professor of law at the University of Alabama in 1968–69. He clerked for Justice William J. Brennan at the United States Supreme Court in 1969–70. In 1972–73, he studied the war powers as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and an International Affairs Fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City.

Before joining William & Mary, Reveley practiced law for almost three decades at Hunton & Williams, specializing in energy and environmental matters, especially regarding commercial nuclear power. He was the managing partner of the firm for nine years during a time of significant growth in its national and international reach.

Reveley has served on many cultural and educational boards, including those of Princeton University, Union Presbyterian Seminary, St. Christopher's School, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation, the Oak Spring Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, JSTOR, the Richmond Symphony, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Three Successive generations of the Reveley family have been presidents of schools in Virginia. Reveley's father, W. Taylor Reveley II, was president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1963 to 1977. His son, W. Taylor Reveley IV, became president of Longwood University in March 2013.

Reveley retired as William & Mary's president on June 30, 2018. He was succeeded by Katherine Rowe, the first woman to lead William & Mary since its founding in 1693.

References

"College of William and Mary School of Law". Martindale.com.
[http://www.wm.edu/law/faculty/reveley-18.shtml W. Taylor Reveley, III, Interim President and John Stewart Bryan Professorship of Jurisprudence, W&M School of Law]. Accessed March 23, 2008.
[http://www.wm.edu/president/ WM.edu: W. Taylor Reveley. Interim President] Accessed March 23, 2008
Whitson, Brian. (April 27, 2012). "William & Mary - W&M Board of Visitors renews contract for President Taylor Reveley". Wm.edu.
"Reveley Named Co-Director of National War Powers Commission".
"Reveley's role pivotal in war powers' report".
Reveley, I. I. I.. (1965). "Between North and South: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development".
"Walter Taylor Reveley III Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who".
(May 2, 2017). "Taylor Reveley III '68 Helped Transform William & Mary's Law School, Then the Entire College".
"On Father's Day, honoring a legacy and a unique presidential bondOn Father's Day, honoring a legacy and a unique presidential bond".
(February 20, 2018). "William & Mary announces Katherine Rowe as 28th President". College of William & Mary.

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