The honorable John Charles Thomas graduated from the university of virginia with an arts degree in American Government in 1972. He attended the university of Virginia School of law and received his law degree in 1975. Following school, palmers joined princeton and williams and smiled. Continue williams gain gibson. He was the first africanamerican at the firm. He is now a retired partner of the firm of hunt andrews. In 1983, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of virginia, becoming the first africanamerican and being 32, the youngest person of any race to serve. There. In 1995 of this time, as received his lifetime image award. In 2005, thomas was named a member of the court of arbitration for sport, which is based in lausanne, switzerland. So settling International Sports with global jurisdiction. In 2006, he was appointed the board of visitors of william and mary and was reappointed to 39. He is a published poet and as we will discuss today, now a maurice. Jones thomas will be in c
Term in congress they discuss run for Public Office, having to navigate a divided government and how to best inspire Younger Generation to get involved in politics in the public sector. The discussion was hosted by Howard University. I am dr. Elsie scott, im the director of the Ronald Walters leadership and Public Policy center to at Howard University. We are so honored today to have special guests on our campus in the form of freshmen women from the congress. And they are members of the Congressional Black Caucus. And we are so pleased that they took time out of their busy schedules, the day after the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual legislative conference. If anybody knows, they work very hard during that time. Period back. So we thank them coming to the campus today, and to being with us, and we look forward to working with their offices on getting more howard students working in internships and more howard students hired in the congress. So they have brought staff with
Following school, palmers joined princeton and williams and smiled. Continue williams gain gibson. He was the first africanamerican at the firm. He is now a retired partner of the firm of hunt andrews. In 1983, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of virginia, becoming the first africanamerican and being 32, the youngest person of any race to serve. There. In 1995 of this time, as received his lifetime image award. In 2005, thomas was named a member of the court of arbitration for sport, which is based in lausanne, switzerland. So settling International Sports with global jurisdiction. In 2006, he was appointed the board of visitors of william and mary and was reappointed to 39. He is a published poet and as we will discuss today, now a maurice. Jones thomas will be in conversation with risa goluboff, who is the first female dean of the university of india, Virginia School of law. Dean ghalibaf is a renowned legal historian with scholarship and teaching focused on american constitutio
good afternoon. i am chris jansing. thank you for joining us for special coverage of the service to honor the life of former first lady rosalynn carter. we are watching an extraordinary gathering that is making its way to atlanta. that service is scheduled to begin in the coming minutes. rosalynn carter died last week at the age of 96. today she is being remembered both for her tireless humanitarian efforts, and, of course, her life long love story with her husband, former president jimmy carter. you see the empty pews there. and they will soon be filled with some of the most notable politicians in the country, among the mourners at glen memorial church. they include president biden and first lady jill biden, vice president harris and second gentleman doug inhofe, former president bill clinton and hillary clinton, along with every other living former first lady, laura bush will be there, michelle obama, melania trump. even at that, the most moving image we expect to see
Support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the commonwealth of virginia and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge all of the duties incumbent upon me as governor of virginia, according to the best of my ability. So help you god. So help me god. Congratulations how did you know you wanted to get into politics . I didnt want to get into politics because i didnt want to go around smiling and begging for votes and asking for money. I thought politics was what i would call a representative of people. But i ran my mouth all the time, from day one as a kid. I get so much about things and people said, why dont you run. They didnt really mean to run, they meant run away from them and quit running your mouth. I just felt that people, particularly those that i had come to know that were part of my ilk, a part of my being, they didnt have representation to the extent that they needed. If lincolns words were of any meaning all the people for the people by the p