Law School Announces Goal to Create Endowed Faculty Positions in Honor of Blackmore & SullivanApril, 2006 “Since becoming Dean in July 2004, I have visited with hundreds of alumni and non-alumni who are leaders in the Ohio legal and business community. During these visits, more often than not, the very first question I am asked is “How is Professor….?” Most of the time, either Josiah Blackmore or John Sullivan are the subject of their inquiry,” says Dean Jack Guttenberg. “The expression of admiration, appreciation and respect for Professors Blackmore and Sullivan is a consistent theme that I hear repeatedly.” The time has come to honor Professors Blackmore and Sullivan for their innumerable contributions to Capital University Law School and to the legal profession as a whole with the establishment of two endowed positions named in their honor. Capital University Law School is proud to announce the goal of establishing The Professor Emeritus & Dean Josiah H. Blackmore II Chair in Legal Education and The Professor Emeritus John E. Sullivan Professor of Law and seeks your support to achieve these endowed positions. By establishing a permanently endowed academic chair in honor of Professor Blackmore and a permanently endowed professorship in honor of Professor Sullivan, the Law School will be able to strengthen its faculty by recruiting and retaining professors who are dedicated to legal education. The Blackmore Chair funding committee is being led J. Miles Gibson, L’78 and includes: Jeffrey A. Grossman, L’72, James. K. Hunter, III, L’73, Teresa L. Liston, L’81, Barbara J. Lucks, L’76, Robert J. Weiler, L’83, and Randolph C. Wiseman, L’74. A fully-funded academic chair can be established with gifts, multi-year pledges, and/or deferred planned gifts totaling $1.5 million. The Sullivan Professorship funding committee is co-chaired by David H. Tannenbaum, L’66 and Fred P. Zimmer, L’58. Additional committee members are welcome. A fully-funded professorship can be established with gifts, multi-year pledges, and/or deferred planned gifts totaling $500,000. If you have any questions, or would like to make a gift in honor of Professors Blackmore or Sullivan, contact John Strick, director of Alumni Relations and Development at (614) 236-6603.
Josiah H. Blackmore II earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Miami University in 1956, and his juris doctor cum laude from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1962. His affiliation with Capital began in 1969, when he served as an adjunct professor. In 1970, he joined the faculty as a full-time law professor. In 1979, Professor Blackmore was named acting dean, followed by his appointment in 1980 as dean of Capital University Law & Graduate Center. In 1998, he retired as President of Capital University after a decade of service as the University’s 12th president. Professor Emeritus Blackmore continues today as a part-time Law School faculty member, but has announced that this will be his last semester of teaching. Through the years he has taught Evidence, Civil Procedure, Legal Systems, Professional Responsibility, Justice, and Conflicts of Law. Professor Blackmore was the first professor to hold Capital University Law School’s first endowed chair, the Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair of Law. Professor Emeritus Blackmore is a recognized authority in the area of evidence, having co-authored the Ohio Evidence Law Treatise and having served on the Ohio Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee. Appointed by the Governor, he is currently serving on the Ohio Ethics Commission. He has received numerous honors including, recognition as the Law School’s Outstanding Professor in 1977, the Ohio Municipal League award for service to the legal profession, the President’s Award from the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Columbus Bar Association’s Liberty Bell Award. Most recently, he was honored by the Columbus Bar Foundation with its Presidential Award for Lifetime Service, recognizing his lifetime commitment to the Columbus legal community.
John E. Sullivan, a World War II veteran, earned his bachelor’s degree at John Carroll University in 1950 and his juris doctor at Western Reserve University in 1952. In 1953, he joined the law faculty of Franklin University Law School and was an energetic, determined, and steadying force in the growth of the Law School. He served as acting dean in 1959-60 and as academic dean in 1965-66, when the Law School moved from Franklin’s YMCA location to Capital University in Bexley, Ohio. Professor Sullivan taught criminal law, torts and consumer law. Deeply respected by his students, he was selected by the student body three times as Professor of the Year. During his career, Professor Sullivan also served as a legal consultant to the Ohio State Department of Education and to the Ohio Municipal League. During the 1973-74 academic year, he took a sabbatical to serve as an assistant county prosecutor for Franklin County. Professor Sullivan was the co-author of a handbook for the Ohio Mayor’s Court. For his many contributions, the annual John E. Sullivan Lecture was created in 1978 and named in honor of his 25 years of service to the Law School, his tireless commitment to teaching and legal education, and his deep personal interest in his students. Capital University presented Professor Sullivan with an honorary doctor
of laws degree in 1987. At the time Professor Sullivan assumed professor
emeritus status in 1988, he had taught nearly 90 percent of all living
graduates of the Franklin University and Capital University Law Schools.
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