Honoring Your Impact

Distinguished Giving

Tamara Charity-Brown and Carlos Brown
Scholarships Set Couple on Path to UVA
October 18, 2023
Attending the University of Virginia so transformed the lives of Carlos M. Brown and Tamara Charity-Brown that they are on a mission to pay it forward. Growing up in rural Chesapeake, Virginia, in what he describes as difficult circumstances, Carlos, a 1999 Law School graduate, had hoped to attend
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The Luftglass family
Supporting the School That Supported Them
July 6, 2023
On a mid-January night 20 years ago, Karen Pape and Scott Luftglass met at a party their 2L classmate Jason Levin was hosting. The pair hit it off and arranged a follow-up date for the next night … and every other day for the rest of the semester. Engaged months later, in their third years, the rest
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Class of 1983
Class of 1983: A Collective Effort
January 5, 2023
Supporting students at the Law School has been a decades-long collective effort for the Class of 1983. Years ago, when members of the class reunion committee were on a call planning their gift, they considered funding a scholarship. “One of the participants mentioned how much tuition was for the
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Book
Supporting the Law Library
January 5, 2023
This year, the Arthur D. Morris Law Library’s Special Collections area acquired a 1578 edition of Edmund Plowden’s “Commentaries” — a very significant collection of law reports from that period. The book was purchased with funds from a bequest from Thomas D. Soutter ’62. Eighteen donor funds support
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Phipps family
Why We Give: A Family Affair
January 5, 2023
Endowed and named unrestricted funds, such as the Phipps Family Unrestricted Endowment, notably help secure UVA Law’s long-term needs. “The Law School will always have a very special place in our hearts,” said Kim Phipps ’91. “Errol and I met and got married while in school, both first-generation
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John W. Glynn Jr. ’65 and Barbara A. Glynn
Glynn Family Adds to UVA Legacy
June 29, 2022
Longtime benefactors John W. Glynn Jr. ’65 and Barbara A. Glynn (GSAS ’67) again demonstrated their dedication to the University of Virginia and their ongoing commitment to strengthen key areas with recent gifts creating endowed professorships for faculty. The Glynns’ gifts established three
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Elaine Jones, Marsha Henderson, and Wade Henderson
Honoring Past and Future Pathbreakers
June 29, 2022
The Elaine R. Jones ’70 Scholarship, named in honor of the Law School’s first Black alumna, was established on the occasion of Jones’ 50th reunion. The Law School has raised more than $1,000,000 for the scholarship fund since its launch two years ago. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Jones was the
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Brian Leung
Making His Legacy at UVA Law Now
June 29, 2022
By most measures, Brian Leung ’08 is still a young man, but when he began to consider his estate, he wanted to remember the Law School with a planned gift, also known as a legacy gift. He is one of the youngest alums to declare that he intends to leave the Law School such a gift. Asked why, Leung
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Benjamin and Kendra Paul
Couple Offers Unrestricted Support for the Student Experience
June 29, 2022
Members of the Dean’s Council are the Law School’s leading contributors of private support. Donors are recognized as associate and life members as their giving meets certain criteria. Associate members give or pledge $25,000 for unrestricted use, or $50,000 for restricted use, within a five-year
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Bill Stuntz
Supporting Students While Honoring a Teacher and Mentor
December 8, 2021
Ted ’92 and Keryn Mathas had been thinking about what they could do for the Law School for quite some time. Sharing in the school’s belief that it was important to attract high-caliber students who want to pursue careers in public policy, they realized a public service scholarship in honor of Bill
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Student Activities Fair
Supporting Students: Sense of Community
December 8, 2021
The sense of a community with purpose is everywhere at UVA Law. The classrooms, library meeting rooms, and hallway benches overflow with conversations that will be backed up by actions. More and more that action takes the form of clinical training. Students perform lawyer functions while taking part
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cupola
Supporting Students Through Decades of Philanthropy
December 8, 2021
The Engel family’s involvement with the Law School began with William’s admission to the class of 1974. He was followed by his brother, Richard, class of 1977, his late sister-in-law, Brenda Farr Engel, class of 1978, and two other close relatives over several years. All family members have felt a
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Louise Sams
Why You Give: Answering a Call
February 24, 2021
“When Dean Goluboff said that raising money for scholarships was a priority for the Law School, I wanted to do what I could to help with that effort,” said Louise Sams. A supporter since graduating in 1985, Sams answered the Dean’s call by funding the Louise S. Sams ’85 Bicentennial Scholarship. “I
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UVA Law and Hal Hicks
Why You Give: In His Name
February 24, 2021
Although Skadden tax partner Hal Hicks ’85 has supported the Law School for more than 20 years, he wanted to do something extra special for his family and for the school. Hicks chose to endow a scholarship in his father’s name.
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Tiffany Graves
Tiffany Graves ’06 Takes on National Appeals Chair Role
August 31, 2020
Tiffany Graves ’06 agreed to become the new National Appeals Chair for the Law School Foundation long before anyone could have anticipated the challenges that COVID-19 would present for the annual giving campaign and the life of the Law School in general. Not that any of that would have deterred her
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