Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte
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Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte (June 1, 1933 - ) is a Floridian lawyer, professor, former politician, former educational administrator, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of Florida State University (FSU).
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[edit] Early life
Born in Tallahassee, D'Alemberte was educated in public schools in Tallahassee and Chattahoochee, Florida. In 1955 he earned his bachelor of arts degree with honors in political science from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at FSU and the University of Virginia. After military service as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics. In 1962 he received his juris doctor with honors from the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as president of the Student Bar Association, was captain of the moot court team, served as articles editor of the University of Florida Law Review and received the J. Hillis Miller Award as the outstanding law graduate.
[edit] Legal and Political Achievements
D'Alemberte was the 1991-1992 president of the American Bar Association and the 1982-1984 president of the American Judicature Society. He represented Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972 and chaired several legislative committees. After leaving the Florida Legislature he chaired the Florida Constitution Revision Commission in 1977-1978 and the Florida Commission on Ethics in 1974-1975.
[edit] Career at Florida State University
His grandfather attended the Seminary West of the Suwannee and his mother attended the Florida State College for Women; the two institutions were predecessors to Florida State University. D'Alemberte served as the fourth dean of the Florida State University College of Law from 1984 to 1989. He was appointed president of Florida State University on November 29, 1993, by the Florida Board of Regents, and took office on January 3, 1994 and held it until January 6, 2003 when he was succeeded by T. K. Wetherell.
[edit] Current Activities
D'Almberte joined the law firm of Hunton & Williams in 2004, where he focuses on appellate and trial work. He continues to teach as a member of the University faculty at the FSU college of Law. He is an active member of many legal and higher educational committees and boards, including numerous American Bar Association committees, state and regional bar associations, the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Florida Council of 100, the Business-Higher Education Forum, the Campus Compact, the Advisory Board of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, the Mildred and Claude Pepper Foundation Board of Directors, the Academic Task Force on Hurricane Catastrophe Insurance which identifies ways to provide affordable hurricane insurance coverage to all Floridians, and several FSU committees and boards including the FSU Foundation, the FSU Alumni Association, the Collins Center for Public Policy, the Caribbean Law Institute and the Seminole Boosters, Inc.
