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September 28, 2004

Appeals Judge to Deliver Trienens Lecture

CHICAGO --- Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, will visit Northwestern University School of Law Oct. 5 and 6 as this year’s Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar.

As part of his visit, Wilkinson will deliver a lecture titled “Building a Legal Culture of Affection” at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, at the School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Wilkinson was appointed to the Fourth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. He served as the court’s chief judge from 1996 to 2003, and prior to his appointment to the bench, he taught law at his alma mater, the University of Virginia.

In 1970 Wilkinson ran as the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. from 1972 to 1973, and previously served as the deputy assistant attorney general for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Earlier this year, he received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law from the University of Virginia for his contributions to the legal field. The award, co-sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, is the highest outside honor bestowed by that university.

Wilkinson has authored several books including “Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics,” “Serving Justice: A Supreme Court Clerk’s View,” “From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration” and “One Nation Indivisible: How Ethnic Separatism Threatens America.”

The Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program was established at Northwestern University School of Law in 1989 by partners of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood to honor Trienens’ service to the firm and Northwestern. Trienens joined the firm in 1949 as an associate and became a partner in 1956. He headed Sidley’s executive committee from 1977 to 1993.

Distinguished jurists who have lectured as part of the Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program include U.S. Supreme Court Justices William H. Renquist, Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy.