List of Our Endowments

DEANSHIP

  • William J. Maier, Jr. Deanship

CHAIRS

  • John T. Copenhaver, Jr. Chair of Law

PROFESSORSHIPS
(in chronological order)

  • Arthur B. Hodges Professorship of Law
  • Robert T. Donley Professorship of Law
  • Hale J. & Roscoe P. Posten Professorship of Law
  • Woodrow A. Potesta Professorship of Law
  • Thomas R. Goodwin Professorship of Law
  • John W. Fisher II Professorship of Law
  • James H. Buck & June Harless Professorship of Law
  • Steptoe & Johnson, LLP Professorship of Law
  • Jackson Kelly, PLLC Professorship of Law
  • Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, PLLC Professorship of Law
  • Robert Lemley Shuman Professorship of Law
  • Arthur S. Dayton Professorship of Law
  • Judge Charles H. Haden Professorship of Law
  • Charles M. Love, Jr. Professorship of Law
  • Segal-Davis Law Professorship

COLLEGE OF LAW FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

  • Willard D. Lorensen Faculty Development Fund
  • Flaherty Sensabaugh & Bonasso Faculty Development

COLLEGE OF LAW ENHANCEMENT ENDOWMENTS

  • J. Brooks Lawson Trial Advocacy & Skills Endowment
  • Cynthia Santoro Gustke Memorial Fund
  • Scott A. Horstemeyer Law Clinic & Skills Training
  • Justice Larry & Becky Starcher Law Endowment
  • Judge Robert E. Maxwell Endowment

LECTURESHIPS

  • Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures
  • John W. Fisher II Lectureship in Law & Medicine
  • Charles L. Ihlenfeld Lecture Fund
  • Archibald McDougall Visiting Lectureship on International Law

COLLEGE OF LAW ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS

  • Thurman Arnold Annual Scholarship
  • Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love PLLC Law Scholarship
  • Frank Bliss Enslow Law Scholarship Award
  • Friends of the West Virginia State Bar Scholarship
  • George D. Hott Scholarship
  • Kay Casto & Chaney PLLC Scholarship
  • The Robinson & McElwee PLLC Scholarship
  • Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Law Scholarship
  • Duane C. Southern Memorial Fund
  • West Virginia State Bar Merit Scholarship

COLLEGE OF LAW ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
(alphabetical order)

  • Ronald H. Adams Memorial Scholarship
  • Allen Guthrie McHugh & Thomas Merit Scholarship
  • John E. Amos Memorial Scholarship
  • S.J. (Sam) Angotti Memorial Scholarship
  • Arch Coal, Inc., Law Scholarship
  • Thurman Arnold Memorial Scholarship
  • W. Gerald & Carolyn Blaney Law Scholarship
  • Berger/Howell Book Scholarship
  • Martin Brown Memorial Scholarship
  • G. Nicholas Casey, Jr. Scholarship
  • F. Paul and Thomas N. Chambers Endowed Law Scholarship
  • Franklin D. Cleckley Law Scholarship
  • Mr. and Mrs. Hayward E. Clovis Scholarship
  • James H. Coleman, Jr. Scholarship
  • College of Law Class of 1957 Scholarship
  • College of Law Class of 1969 Scholarship
  • College of Law Class of 1971 Merit Book Scholarship
  • College of Law Class of 1982 Scholarship
  • College of Law Minority Scholarship
  • College of Law Visiting Committee Scholarship
  • Henry D. Collins Law Scholarship
  • F. Waldo Craig Endowment Fund
  • C. William Cramer Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Gladys G. Davis Law Scholarships
  • Judge Max DeBerry Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Alison H. & Patrick D. Deem Law Review Scholarship
  • Russell C. Dunbar Law Scholarship
  • Gilbert Frey Endsley Endowed Law Scholarship
  • Ambassador Joseph S. Farland Scholarship
  • Sue Seibert Farnsworth Scholarship
  • Anne McGuire Farrell Memorial Scholarship
  • Agnes Furman Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Mary Jane Smith Geary Memorial Scholarship
  • Robert L. Griffin Memorial Law Scholarship
  • John S. Haight Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • David C. and Susan B. Hardesty Law Scholarship
  • J. Adrian and Mabel Harner Endowed Law Scholarship
  • Judge Robert M. Harvey Memorial Scholarship
  • Andrew L. Herz Scholarship
  • Philip H. Hill Scholarship
  • Raymond A. and Barbara J. Hinerman Law Scholarship
  • Jackson Kelly PLLC/John L. McClaugherty Scholarship
    In Honor of Forest J. Bowman
  • William L. Jacobs Law Scholarship
  • Jenkins Fenstermaker PLLC – John E. Jenkins, Jr. Law Scholarship
  • John T. Kay, Jr. Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Keeley Federal Judicial Clerkship Scholarship
  • Katherine Phillips Kenna Law Scholarship
  • Kesner, Kesner & Bramble PLLC Scholarship
  • Judge William M. Kidd Memorial Scholarship
  • William E. & Denny Kiger Book Scholarship
  • Sidney J. & Edna D. Kwass Scholarship
  • G.W. Lavender, III Law Scholarship
    In Memory of Agnes Furman
  • Law Classified Staff Scholarship
  • Law Women’s Centennial Scholarship
  • J. Franklin Long Scholarship
  • William H. Loy Memorial Scholarship
  • Marlyn E. Lugar Memorial Scholarship
  • Martin Brown Memorial Scholarship
  • The McCamic Law Scholarships
  • Judge Daniel L. McCarthy Law Scholarship
  • Agnes Westbrook Morrison Scholarship
  • Harry E. Moats Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Roy Oman Law Scholarship
  • The Pace Family Foundation Book Scholarship
    In Honor of C.W. Pace & C.W. Pace, Jr.
  • John Patton College of Law Scholarship
  • August William & William G. Petroplus Law Scholarship
  • Tom and Anne Peyton Merit Scholarship
  • Tim Philipps Scholarship Fund
  • Clinton Ritter Scholarship Fund
  • Clarence Roby Endowed Scholarship
  • Alma Davis and Claude Linwell Rowe, Jr., Memorial Scholarship
  • Henry S. Schrader Law Scholarship
  • Henry S. Schrader Merit Scholarship
  • The Segal and Davis Women’s Law Centennial Scholarship Fund
  • Paul L. Selby, Jr. Scholarship
  • Shaffer & Shaffer Law Scholarship
  • Dennis Junior and Lyla Clare Sharps Scholarship
  • Victor Shaw Endowed Law Scholarship
  • Ned and June Shott Law Scholarship
  • Spilman, Thomas, Battle & Klostermeyer Endowed Scholarship
  • Lewis A. Staker Scholarship
  • John W. Tissue & Lynne B. Klopf Endowed Law Scholarship
  • Ben Toliver Minority Law Scholarship
  • Ellen F. Warder Memorial Scholarship
  • Arthur J.R. Warren, Jr. Book Scholarship
  • Hays Webb Memorial Law Scholarship
  • Harvey E. Weiner Law Scholarship
  • Wetzel-Tyler County Bar Association Book Scholarship
  • WV Bar Association Book Scholarship
  • WV State Bar/ALP’s Minority Law Scholarship
  • Wilson Frame Benninger & Metheney Trial Advocacy Scholarship
  • Louise Farrell Winterbottom Law Scholarship
  • Charles C. Wise Jr. Scholarship Fund
  • Ronald E. Wolff, Jr. Scholarship Industrial & Workplace Safety

ENDOWED STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

  • Carl M. Selinger Human Rights & Public Interest Fund

AWARDS

  • Arthur Ritz Kingdon, Jr. Memorial Law Prize
  • Patrick Duffy Koontz Scholarship Awards
  • Tax Institute Award
  • United States Law Week Award
  • West Virginia Law Review Association Award

LOYALTY PERMANENT ENDOWMENT
c/o WVU Alumni Association
(Administered/awarded by the WVU Alumni Association.)

  • Robert T. Donley Scholarships
  • Robert G. Kelly Memorial Scholarships
  • Ernest E. Winters Scholarships

Endowed Gifts

Endowed gifts are invested and only the earnings are spent. An endowment produces annual income to support, in perpetuity, the area of the College of Law to which the donor designates the gift.

Endowments can be established with gifts of cash, stocks, and mutual funds; from bequests in wills or living trusts; from life insurance policies; or from gifts of real estate.

They can be of varying amounts, supporting specific initiatives at the College:

– Scholarships
– Chairs
– Professorships
– Lectureships
– George R. Farmer, Jr.
   Law Library
– Facilities projects
West Virginia
   Law Review

– Marlyn E. Lugar
   Trial Association
– Moot Court
– Clinical Law Program
– Appalachian Center for
   Law & Public Service
– Public Interest
   Advocates
– Unrestricted
   endowments
   supplementing gifts
   to the Dean’s Fund