Peter John Kalis
A.B., West Virginia University, 1972D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1976
J.D., Yale University, 1978
A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, Peter Kalis received a bachelor?s degree from WVU in 1972. While a student at WVU, he served as student body president and was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1971, he was named WVU?s 17th Rhodes Scholar. He attended the University of Oxford where received a doctor of philosophy in politics in 1976. He continued his education at Yale Law School, serving as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and received his law degree in 1978.
After clerking for the late J. Skelly Wright, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for the late Associate Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court, Kalis began a legal career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He currently serves as chairman and global managing partner of K&L Gates and was elected to WVU?s Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2007.