WHERE: Rare Books Room, Tarlton Law Library, Sixth Floor
WHEN: 4 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 23, 2003
AUSTIN, Texas – The installation ceremony for new members in Chancellors, the highest honorary organization at The University of Texas School of Law, will be held Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. in the Rare Books Room of the Tarlton Law Library. Membership to Chancellors is extended to the 16 students with the highest grade point averages after two years at UT Law.
The following students have been named 2003 Chancellors: Grand Chancellor, Brendan J. Crimmins; Vice-Chancellor, Marcus James Brooks; Clerks, Kimberley Suzanne Ellars and Adrienne Paige Leder; Keeper of the Peregrinus, Poth Andrew McStay; and Chancellors-at Large Noelle Celeste Berryman, John Lequeux Ewald, Matthew H. Frederick, Tyler P. Gilman, James Wesley Hendrix, Micah John Howe, Jennifer C. O'Hara, Hilary Lovett Preston, Shawn Jonathan Rabin, Michael Anthony Valek and Brad Thomas Wyly. UT Law Professor David Anderson, the faculty advisor for the organization, will welcome and congratulate new members on behalf of the faculty.
More than 1,000 UT Law students have been members of Chancellors, which was started in 1914. Since then, the names of Chancellors have been enrolled in a roster in the law library's Rare Book Room. The names include many who are prominent in legal practice, the judiciary and academia.
Among them were W. Page Keeton, who was Dean of UT Law; Charles Meyers, who was Dean of Stanford Law School; Henry Wade, the legendary Dallas district attorney; John Hill, former attorney general of Texas; Nicholas Johnson, former FCC commissioner; Ralph Yarborough, who was a U.S. Senator; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett; and Judges Joseph Sneed, Thomas Gee, and Diane Wood of the U.S. Courts of Appeal.