[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 26 (Monday, February 25, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E184-E185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO DEAN DANIEL JOHN MEADOR

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                             HON. JO BONNER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, February 25, 2013

  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a distinguished 
Alabamian who made many valuable contributions to the study of law both 
in his home State and in the state of Virginia. Daniel John Meador, a 
retired University of Virginia law professor and former dean of the 
University of Alabama Law School, recently passed away at the age of 
86.
  Professor Meador was born in Selma, Alabama in 1926. He attended The 
Citadel and later graduated from Auburn University and the University 
of Alabama Law School. He pursued graduate study at the Harvard Law 
School where he received the degree of Master of Laws in 1954.
  During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army, first in the 
artillery and then in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in Korea. From 
1954 to 1955, he was law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black of the U.S. 
Supreme Court. He then entered law practice in Birmingham with the firm 
of Lange, Simpson, Robinson, and Somerville. In 1957 he joined the law 
faculty at the University of Virginia. From 1965 to 1966, he was a 
Fulbright Lecturer in England.
  His deanship at the University of Alabama Law School from 1966 to 
1970 came at a time of transition in the School's development. With the 
backing of the University president, Dr. Frank Rose, he was successful 
in greatly increasing financial support for the school from its alumni 
and others. Under his leadership the law library collection was 
doubled, the curriculum expanded, new faculty recruited, and a program 
of visiting professors and lecturers inaugurated. He was instrumental 
in obtaining for the school a chapter of Order of the Coif, the 
national legal honor society. He initiated plans for a new law school 
building, completed a decade later.
  In 1970, he rejoined the University of Virginia law faculty as James 
Monroe Professor of Law, a position he held until his retirement in 
1994. At the University of Virginia he received the Raven Award, Alumni 
Association Distinguished Professor Award, and the Thomas Jefferson 
Award, the University's highest honor.
  From 1977 to 1979, he was an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. 
Department of Justice, heading a new office entitled the Office for 
Improvements in the Administration of Justice. One of his most 
significant accomplishments there was the development of the bill that 
Congress enacted to create the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal 
Circuit and the Court of Federal Claims.
  Dean Meador was the founding president of the Cahaba Foundation, a 
non-profit corporation dedicated to securing private financial support 
for the state historical park at Cahaba, Alabama's first State capital. 
He took a deep personal interest in Cahaba because his mother's family 
lived and conducted extensive

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farming operations there for three generations, and he spent much time 
there in his childhood. He recounted all of this in a memoir, At 
Cahaba--From Civil War to Great Depression. For his preservation 
efforts in Cahaba he received the distinguished service award from the 
Alabama Historical Commission.
  On behalf of the people of Alabama, I wish to offer condolences to 
his wife, Alice, and their three children--Barrie Meador Boyd; Anna 
Meador Palms; Daniel J. Meador Jr., seven grandchildren, and a brother, 
Dr. Clifton K. Meador, former dean of the University of Alabama Medical 
School.

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