{"id":59023,"date":"2018-07-25T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=59023"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:00:04","slug":"a-celebration-of-law-alumnus-to-benefit-law-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2018\/07\/25\/a-celebration-of-law-alumnus-to-benefit-law-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Law Alumnus to Benefit Law Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Community Appreciation Luncheon for the Honorable Judge\u00a0<strong>James R. Williams<\/strong>, retired, will be held Saturday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m. in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union, Ballrooms A and B. Proceeds from the event will be donated to The Honorable James R. and Catherine D. Williams Scholarship Fund administered by our School of Law, which has a table at the luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being presented by Alpha Phi Alpha Homes, Inc., which is operated by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The Eta Tau Lambda Chapter of the fraternity was established at UA in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who earned a B.A.Ed. in 1960 and a J.D. in 1965 at UA, has had a distinguished legal career, both as an attorney and on the bench. He was the first African American judge on the Summit County Common Pleas Court, where he served from 1989 until 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The UA alumnus has been a civil rights leader, active in civic organizations and he also served as national president of Alpha Phi Alpha. He worked to provide housing for moderate and low-income families and senior citizens, serving as the first chairman of Alpha Phi Alpha Homes.\u00a0He has been honored as one of the \u201c100 Most Influential Black Americans\u201d by Ebony Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Please order your tickets now \u2014 $50 each or $400 per table \u2014 online at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/akronalphas.org\/\">Eta Tau Lambda Chapter<\/a>\u00a0website or through direct purchase at Alpha Homes. Contact\u00a0<strong>Alex DeJarnett<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alexdejarnett@aol.com\">alexdejarnett@aol.com<\/a>\u00a0to make your meal selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Community Appreciation Luncheon for the Honorable Judge\u00a0James R. Williams, retired, will be held Saturday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m. in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union, Ballrooms A and B. Proceeds from the event will be donated to The Honorable James R. and Catherine D. Williams Scholarship Fund administered by our School of Law, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2018\/07\/25\/a-celebration-of-law-alumnus-to-benefit-law-scholarship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Celebration of Law Alumnus to Benefit Law Scholarship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59031,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59023\/revisions\/59031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}