Chancellor Burger
Warren E. Burger, 1993. Chief Justice Burger, Chancellor of the College of William & Mary and Professor and Dean of the School of Education, Virginia McLaughlin,
adjusting his Chancellor’s badge at the Commencement celebration. Photograph by C. James Gleason/VISCOM.
Even before Chief Justice Burger became the twentieth chancellor of the College in 1986, he had visited Williamsburg and William & Mary on several occasions: In 1971, as the speaker at the First National Conference of the Judiciary, he had called for the creation of the National Center for State Courts; in 1973 he delivered the College’s commencement address and received an honorary doctorate. He was presented with the John Marshall Award for Excellence in American Legal History by the Marshall-Wythe student chapter of the College’s Law School in 1978. In 1979, he was the speaker at the Law Day Ceremonies at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law. During the 1980s, several meetings of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, over which the Chief Justice presided, were held in Williamsburg as well.
Honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, College of William and Mary, 1973. Warren E. Burger received this honorary degree at the Commencement Exercises of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, on June 3, 1973.