William Ray Forrester

William Ray Forrester

Forrester pictured in The Jambalaya 1953, Tulane yearbook
Born January 14, 1911(1911-01-14)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Died February 16, 2001(2001-02-16) (aged 90)
San Francisco, California
Fields Law
Known for Tulane University Law School dean
Vanderbilt University Law School dean
Cornell University Law School dean

William Ray Forrester (January 14, 1911 – February 16, 2001) served as the dean of three law schools: (1) Vanderbilt University Law School; (2) Tulane University Law School; and (3) Cornell University Law School.[1]

Forrester was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.[1]

After six years with a Chicago firm, Mr. Forrester took a teaching position at Tulane University in 1941. Forrester served as Dean of the Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee from 1949 to 1952. He returned to Tulane as Dean from 1952 to 1963. He left to serve as Dean of the Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York from 1963 to 1973. During his career, he served as a visiting professor at Yale, Stanford, the University of Georgia, and the University of London. He began teaching in 1976 at the University of California's Hastings College of Law where students three times voted him the outstanding professor. He remained on the faculty there until two months prior to his death. He was buried in New Orleans.[1]

Academic offices
Preceded by
Paul William Brosman
Tulane University Law School Dean
1952 – 1963
Succeeded by
Cecil Morgan

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