| William W. Bergen Assistant Dean for Administrative Services M.A.P.A., University of Virginia, 1985 B.S., Vassar College, 1977 Since 1994, Bill Bergen has been intimately involved in handling matters related to the Law School’s building and grounds. As assistant dean for administrative services, he oversees facility planning and construction, interior and exterior maintenance, renovations, Dining Services, security, student organization and journal office space administration, furniture inventory, and emergency planning. He serves as a liaison to several University offices on matters related to North Grounds. Bergen was hired as a special assistant to the dean to serve as the Law School’s coordinator for the $50 million Law Grounds Project (1995-97), and has continued in a similar capacity for the Student-Faculty Center (2000-02) and several other smaller-scale renovations. Between major projects, he was a law school admissions official from 2002 to 2007. He serves on the University’s Public Art Committee. Before working for the law school, Bergen held a variety of jobs, the most recent of which was as the U.S. Postal Service’s senior legislative analyst. Drafted as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, he performed two years’ alternative service with social service organizations in New York and Virginia. A Civil War historian, Bergen has lectured widely and has served as an instructor at several of the University’s annual Civil War Conferences. He is the author of “The Other Hero of Cedar Creek: The ‘Not Specially Ambitious’ Horatio G. Wright,” a biographical essay appearing in The 1864 Shenandoah Campaign published by University of North Carolina Press in 2006. | |
