“His was a well-lived life,” said Professor Joseph Little. “He was a consummate southern gentleman, with all the attendant virtues: courteous, soft-spoken, moderate in word and deed, generous, serious when required, piquantly humorous when appropriate, unerringly true to his word, and unfaltering in shouldering more than his share of any burden.”

Professor Emeritus Mandell Glicksberg, a friend and colleague of Quarles for close to 35 years, concurred with Professor Little’s assessment, and added, “Jim was well-liked and highly respected by his students and his colleagues. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word. He was a good friend, and will be greatly missed.”

Quarles was preceded in death by his wife, Prudence Quarles, and leaves behind his sons, UF law graduates James Peyton Quarles (UF JD 75) of South Daytona Beach and Christopher Sinclair Quarles (UF JD 79) of Ormond Beach, a daughter, Rebecca Q. McLeod of Tallahassee, his former wife, Audrey Clark of Gainesville, and two grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren.

“I am very proud of my father’s legacy. He taught literally thousands of law students over a career that spanned more than 50 years,” said Chris Quarles. “In my work as an assistant public defender doing capital appeals, I talk to many lawyers around the state. Almost weekly, I encounter lawyers who were taught by my father. Many comment on his dry wit and tough grading policy.”

Quarles’ chief love was teaching. While at Mercer and UF, he taught almost every course offered in a traditional law curriculum, concentrating at UF on his favorites, United States Constitutional Law and Criminal Law.

“I cannot imagine my father being anything but a law professor,” said James Peyton Quarles. “I was surprised recently when he told me that he had no idea he would become a law professor. Being a law professor was so much a part of him, I had assumed that he always planned to teach. It was very fortunate for my father and his future students that his initial teaching opportunity presented itself. He loved teaching and the law school atmosphere. His influence was such that he even convinced both of his sons to become lawyers! We will all miss him.”

“Several prominent lawyers have told me that my father’s class changed their lives,” said Chris Quarles. “Initially disillusioned with law school, they chose to finish after enrolling in my father’s criminal or constitutional law class. They fell in love with the subject and credit my father with the fact that they stayed in school. I am extremely proud of my father. He also was a wonderful parent and provider. His legacy will live on for decades.”

Quarles was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was senior editor of the Virginia Law Review and member of the Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge Parker of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, then worked for the Michie Law Publishing Company.

In 1947, he began teaching law at Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he co-founded the Mercer Law Review and served as law school dean (1956-69). He was recruited from Mercer in 1969 to become executive director of the now defunct Florida Law Revision Commission, then housed at the UF College of Law. He was appointed professor of law shortly thereafter, and soon earned a reputation for active service on numerous law school committees. He chaired the faculty dean search committee that produced Joseph R. (Dick) Julin as dean, and over the next 30 years led numerous governing committees in the college, university and community

“Year after year he did more committee work than anyone else, and semester after semester he taught more students than any other faculty member,” said Little. “This is not merely to acknowledge that Jim always earned his pay. It also acknowledges a huge institutional debt. Jim’s capacity and willingness to do more than his share freed others to pursue interests which often were much less connected to the institution and its students.”

“He was a wonderful colleague and an exquisitely sensitive human being,” said Professor Winston Nagan. “He had a wry sense of humor, touched with great gentility. He will be missed.”

“Students, you should not squander this opportunity; and young lawyers, do not forget it is why you find yourselves where you are. One of my most gratifying experiences is being able to give back to UF through my firm’s endowment of the Intellectual Property Program. UF’s law school has a future of great promise — it should be a source of pride to all alumni and students — and I encourage you all to give back however you can to ensure that the promise becomes reality.”— Jeff Lloyd (UF BA 81; JD 87), shareholder in Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik of Gainesville and Registered Patent Attorney, licensed to file and prosecute applications for patents and trademarks in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He handles a wide range of cases — with emphasis on agricultural biotechnology and areas of complex patent prosecution such as medical property law — including filing and prosecution of patent applications; counseling and/or representing clients on licensing matters, patent appeals and interference proceedings before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences; and providing patentability, freedom-to-operate, validity and infringement opinions and specialized support for litigation counsel in patent infringement litigation.

He was formerly a trial attorney in the Miami office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, concentrating in commercial litigation, with experience in trademark infringement litigation and intellectual property licensing. He is considered an expert on U.S. Patent Law, and has provided opinion testimony in international litigation and lectured at seminars and conferences on intellectual property topics. He is a member of The Florida Bar (Intellectual Property Committee), Association of University Technology Managers, American Intellectual Property Law Association (Biotechnology and Patent Law Committees), and American Bar Association Sections of Litigation and Intellectual Property (Amicus Briefs Committee and Biotechnology Committee). He is admitted to practice before the Florida Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit and Eleventh Circuit, and U.S. District Courts for Southern and Middle Districts of Florida; and admitted pro hac vice to U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Florida, Central District of California, and California Superior Courts for San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties.

He earned his Bachelor’s in History of Science, Technology and Medicine from UF in 1981 (Phi Beta Kappa, with high honors), and Juris Doctor from the UF College of Law — where he was on Trial Team — in 1987. He has continued his involvement with the college, and teaches patent prosecution as an adjunct professor. His firm’s gift established the Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik Intellectual Property Fund, which has enabled IP Program Director Thomas Cotter and the law school to expand offerings in Intellectual Property Law and fund events such as last week’s Law and Technology Conference in Orlando.