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1980s
Increased quality improvement funding from the Florida Legislature and increased support from alumni promoted progress in the law school. The Dean led the drive for funding to complete the building program, Bruton-Geer Hall, and also promoted the restructuring of the College’s legal research and writing program.
1980
Associate Dean E. L. Roy Hunt again served as Interim Dean when Joseph Richard Julin returned to full-time teaching after serving as Dean of the law school for nine years.
Under Dean Hunt’s direction, the College of Law changed from a quarter to a semester system and made major curriculum revisions to improve the quality of legal education at the Holland Law Center. He played a major role in obtaining funding for the Commons Building expansion of the Law Center facilities, now known as Bruton-Geer Hall.
1981
Frank T. (Tom) Read assumed the deanship on July 1st and Roy Hunt returned to teaching.
Fund-raising was under way to construct a second building in the Center to accommodate the expanding functions of the law school.
1984
Bruton-Geer Hall, named after the parents of donor, Judge James D. Bruton, Jr. and his wife, Quintilla Geer Bruton, was completed, accommodating a courtroom, media services, Center for Governmental Responsibility, Legal Research and Writing program, Career Planning, student lounge and cafeteria.
1987
Fifty-nine faculty were teaching, of whom six were women.
1988
On July 1, Jeffrey E. Lewis became the eighth dean of the College of Law as former Dean Reid accepted a position as Dean of the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, California.
1989
July 7. The Virgil Hawkins Clinic was named in memory of Virgil Darnell Hawkins, who crusaded for civil rights.
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