Delta Theta Phi
Delta Theta Phi | |
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ΔΘΦ | |
Founded |
1900 Cleveland Law School |
Type | Professional |
Emphasis | Law |
Publication | The Adelphia Law Journal |
Headquarters |
Campbell Univ., Wiggins School of Law 225 Hillsborough Street, Ste 432Raleigh, North Carolina United States |
Homepage |
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Delta Theta Phi (ΔΘΦ) is a professional law fraternity and a member of the Professional Fraternity Association. Delta Theta Phi is the only one of the two major law fraternities to charter chapters (senates) in the United States at non-American Bar Association-approved law schools. Delta Theta Phi can trace its roots to 1900 at the then-named Cleveland Law School. Delta Theta Phi has initiated more than 136,000 members across the country and in several other nations.
Delta Theta Phi is the only law fraternity with an authoritatively recognized law review, The Adelphia Law Journal. Membership is the only requirement to submit a note for consideration for publication.
The governing body for the fraternity, called the Supreme Senate, has overseen the operation of the fraternity since 1913. The Supreme Senate was originally composed of seven elected officers until a student was added to the board to assure a more complete student representation. In the 1970s, a second student position was added. On Saturday, August 5, 2017, At the 60th Biennial Convention in New Orleans, LA the International Senate elected the following members to serve as the Supreme Senate for the 61st Biennium:
Chancellor Greg Wolenberg Vice-Chancellor Jodie Justiss-Dinsmore Master of the Rolls Sherry McDowell Master Inspector Amy Goodman Master Scholar Justin Hayes Master Alumnus Jeremy Wann Marshall Jason Barth Master Liaison Erez Ahrony Master Liaison Sara Presas
Delta Theta Phi merged with Sigma Nu Phi (founded 1903) in 1989, taking all of Sigma Nu Phi members into membership and gaining The Adelphia Law Journal, giving Delta Theta Phi its own authoritatively recognized law review.[1]
Notable members
Notable initiates of Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity include four U.S. Presidents (Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Lyndon B. Johnson), Robert Menzies, an Australian Prime Minister, nine Chief or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, including among them Edward Douglass White, Jr., Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, and William K. Suter, Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, a Lord Chief Justice of England, 33 current or former U.S. Senators and 77 current or former U.S. Representatives.