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Public memorial service for Justice Frank Cleckley  

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CONTACT: James Jolly
Director of Marketing & Communications
304. 293.7439; James.Jolly@mail.wvu.edu

 

What: WVU public memorial service for Justice Franklin D. Cleckley

When: Sunday (Sept. 24), 2 p.m. 

Where: Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre at the WVU Creative Arts Center.

Who: Long-time attorney and law professor Frank Cleckley passed away on August 14. He was the first African-American faculty member at WVU College of Law, and the first full time African-American professor at WVU, and the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. 

Speakers/Readers: Hon. Dwane Tinsley; Hon. Margaret L. Workman; Joyce M. McConnell, WVU provost; David Fryson, WVU vice president ; Gregory Hinton, attorney; Gail T. Henderson-Staples, President of the Mountain State Bar Association; members of the Cleckley family.

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