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Reggie Barley '74, attorney-at-law |
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Randolph-Macon College hosted a program celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This celebration, featuring alumnus
Reggie Barley ’74, was held on Monday, January 21, 2013 in Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts.
Barley is an attorney-at-law in private practice in Richmond, Virginia. As a student at The College of William & Mary, he was president of the Black American Law Students Association. At R-MC, he received an American Association of Colleges and Universities International Studies Fellowship to study at the University of Graz, Austria, in 1973. Before entering private practice, Barley was the senior assistant city attorney for Richmond. Prior to that, he served as the Reginald Heber Smith Community Law Fellow for Birmingham (Alabama) Area Legal Services and was a staff attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Aid Society, Inc., in Richmond. His Bar memberships include: Virginia State Bar, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Barley's professional associations include: American Bar Association, Richmond Trial Lawyers Association, Virginia Bar Association, Richmond Criminal Bar Association, and Old Dominion Bar Association (vice president, 1985-1989). His community associations include: Richmond Citizens Participation Council, Richmond Community Neighborhood Improvements Program, Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., Fourth Baptist Church Board of Trustees (vice chairman) and Alternative Adult Care Center (board member).
Barley is a current member of the Board of Directors of the R-MC Society of Alumni and has served on the R-MC Board of Associates in the past.
He earned his bachelor's degree in
political science from Randolph-Macon and his law degree at The Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary.
Randolph-Macon College holds an annual celebration in honor of Dr. King. Previous speakers include Hanover County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Jamelle Wilson, entrepreneur and philanthropist Sheila Johnson, The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, The Honorable Douglas L. Wilder, R-MC
Religious Studies Professor Rev. Jerry Ross and Civil Rights Leader Wyatt T. Walker.
For more information about this and other events at R-MC, please contact Pam Harris Cox at 804-752-3712,
pamelacox@rmc.edu or Anne Marie Lauranzon at 804-752-7317,
alauranz@rmc.edu.