Taylor Reveley Offered Presidency of William & Mary

As you know, earlier today the Board of Visitors offered me the presidency of the College of William & Mary, without “interim” in the title. I have accepted and am deeply moved by the Board’s confidence in me and by the enormous support that has come my way from all corners of the William & Mary community over the last six and a half months.

We share a marvelous institution. I will do my level best for W&M. We are in this together, however, and the College needs the commitment of us all to move powerfully into this century. I look forward to working with you as president just as we have worked together during the last six and a half months while I was interim president.

Not sure but anyone is better than Nichol. Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Walter Taylor Reveley, III is the twenty-seventh president of The College of William & Mary. Formerly Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Reveley took over as interim president of the College on February 12, 2008 following Gene Nichol's resignation earlier that day and was officially appointed the College's 27th president for a full, three-year term by the Board of Visitors on September 5, 2008. Reveley had been a finalist for the presidency of William & Mary in 2005, during the candidate search that ended with Nichol's hiring. With his appointment, now made permanent, Reveley holds two positions at the College, as he is also the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the law school.

Reveley's areas of academic specialty include administrative law, citizen lawyers, commercial nuclear power, and Constitutional Law - war powers. He is the author of the 1981 book War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and the Olive Branch?, and was a co-director of the National War Powers Commission. Reveley received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1965 while earning Phi Beta Kappa status. He then received his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1968 while earning Order of the Coif status.

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