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Black Lawyers Matter at UVA Law

Spring 2018

Gregory Swanson, right, on the University of Virginia Lawn
The Long Walk
What Life Was Like for Gregory Swanson, the Lawyer Who Integrated UVA
Elaine Jones
Saying ‘No’ to Wall Street and ‘Yes’ to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Elaine Jones ’70 Made Social Justice Her Life’s Work
Nobel Prize winner Ralph Bunche, right, with Dean F.D.G. Ribble ’21 and Robert F. Kennedy ’51
Unseating Segregation for a Night
How Robert F. Kennedy '51 Helped Ensure Nobel Prize Winner Ralph Bunche a Desegregated Audience at UVA
Judges Gwendolyn Jones Jackson ’72 and Raymond Jackson ’73
The Jacksons’ Judicial Philosophy
Judges Raymond Jackson ’73 and Gwendolyn Jones Jackson ’72 Respect People and Process
BALSA
Black Law Students Mattered
BALSA Organized, Then Pushed for the First Black Professor at UVA Law
Errol and Kim Phipps with their daughter Sara Phipps '20
Generation Next
The Phipps Household Makes Law a Family Business
Linda Gordon Howard
‘I Represent All the Students and This Is What I Want’: Linda Howard ’73
Al Carney
One Student’s Debt: Alfonso Carney Jr. ’74
Ted Small
Erasing the Color Line: Ted Small ’92 Looks Back on SUPRA
Kirstjen Nielsen ’99
Enlisted by a General: Kirstjen Nielsen ’99 Becomes Homeland Security Secretary
Wilma Wallace ’89
The Great Indoors: REI General Counsel Wilma Wallace ’89
Jim Ryan
The Last Word: Q&A With UVA President-Elect Jim Ryan ’92