Jack Burton Justice
A.B., West Virginia University, 1952B.A. Jurisprudence, Oxford, 1954, M.A., 1960
As an undergraduate at West Virginia University, Jack Justice of Williamson, West Virginia, was student body president in 1951-52 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He studied at Merton in Oxford, and he supported the Rhodes Scholarship Trust as president (1986-94) and secretary (1967-86) of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.
He was chairman of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action (1968-70) and a member and clerk (1986-89) of the board of overseers of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. Now retired, he was a partner in the law firm of White and Williams, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his practice was concentrated in banking, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and creditors? rights.
He also served as a lecturer in continuing legal education programs for ALI-ABA on banking and commercial lending law, for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Temple University Law School.