Timothy J. Sullivan
| Timothy J. Sullivan | |
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| 26th President of the College of William & Mary |
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In office April 9, 1992 – June 30, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Paul R. Verkuil |
| Succeeded by | Gene Nichol |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 15, 1944 Ravenna, Ohio, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Klare Sullivan |
| Alma mater |
The College of William & Mary (B.A. 1966) Harvard School of Law (J.D. 1969) |
| Profession | Educator |
Timothy Jackson Sullivan (born April 15, 1944) was the twenty-fifth president of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.
Sullivan’s life has long been intimately linked with William & Mary. He first came to the college as a freshman from Ohio in 1962. He left four years later with a bachelor's degree in government, a Phi Beta Kappa key, and an election to a second academic honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa. His wife, Anne Doubet Klare, was a fellow member of the class of 1966. As were many William & Mary alumni, they were married in the chapel of the Sir Christopher Wren Building.
After receiving a degree from Harvard Law School in 1969, Sullivan went on to serve in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Vietnam, where he received the Army Commendation Medal, First Oak Leaf Cluster and Bronze Star. Sullivan came back to William & Mary in 1972 as an assistant professor at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. He specialized in teaching contract law and became an associate law professor in 1974, and full professor and associate dean in 1977.
Sullivan became closely associated with the Dean of the Law School, William Spong, a highly–respected former U.S. Senator from Virginia. In 1972, Spong was defeated by a well–funded Republican candidate after word leaked out that Spong supported the Democratic nominee and peace candidate, George McGovern, for president rather than the Republican candidate Richard Nixon. Nixon had carried Virginia in every election in which he was on the ballot. Spong then became dean of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law and presided over its major expansion.
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