W. Taylor Reveley III

Who is W. Taylor Reveley III?

Walter Taylor Reveley, III is the twenty-seventh president of The College of William & Mary. Formerly Dean of the William and Mary Law School, Reveley was appointed interim president of the College on February 12, 2008 following Gene Nichol's resignation earlier that day and was officially appointed the College's 27th president for a full, three-year term by the Board of Visitors on September 5, 2008. On April 27, 2012, the Board of Visitors voted to extend Reveley's term through June 2015.

Reveley had been a finalist for the presidency of William & Mary in 2005, during the candidate search that ended with Nichol's hiring. With his appointment, now made permanent, Reveley holds two positions at the College, as he is also the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the law school.

Reveley's areas of academic specialty include administrative law, citizen lawyers, commercial nuclear power, and Constitutional Law - war powers. He is the author of the 1981 book War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and the Olive Branch?, and was a co-director of the National War Powers Commission. Reveley received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1965 while earning a Phi Beta Kappa distinction for academic excellence. He then received his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1968 while earning the Order of the Coif distinction. He was a clerk for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. in 1969.