W. Taylor Reveley III
W. Taylor Reveley III (Walter Taylor Reveley III) was the twenty-seventh president of the College of William and Mary. He served as the interim president of the College of William and Mary from the resignation of President Gene R. Nichol on February 12, 2008, until being appointed President by the Board of Visitors on September 5, 2008. Reveley is the first interim president since Benjamin S. Ewell to be named President of the College of William and Mary. Previously, he was the dean of the William and Mary Law School for almost a decade, serving from August 1998 until being named interim president. He was the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law School.
Reveley received his A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1965. Afterward, he attended law school at the University of Virginia, receiving his J.D. in 1968, and clerked for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. in 1969. He has extensively studied and written about the constitutional division of the war powers between the President and Congress. Reveley is the author of War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and Olive Branch? (University of Virginia Press, 1981). In 2018, the College of William & Mary awarded him an honorary doctorate of law.
Before joining William and Mary, Reveley practiced law for many years at Hunton & Williams, specializing in energy matters, especially those involving commercial nuclear power. He was the managing partner of the firm for nine years. Reveley has also spent a significant amount of time on non-profit organizations, serving on many education and cultural boards, including those of Princeton University (where he is a trustee emeritus), Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, St. Christopher's School, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Historical Society, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Richmond Symphony, and the Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation.
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| Preceded by | College of William and Mary President |
|---|---|
| Gene R. Nichol
July 1, 2005-February 12, 2008 |
W. Taylor Reveley III
Interim President, February 12, 2008 - September 5, 2008 President, September 5, 2008 - Incumbent |
