SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 204

On the death of Dean L. Anthony Sutin.

Agreed to by the Senate, February 7, 2002
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 9, 2002

WHEREAS, L. Anthony Sutin, the Dean of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, died on January 16, 2002; and

WHEREAS, a native of New York, Anthony Sutin was an honors graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard Law School, where he was assistant editor of The Harvard Environmental Law Review; and

WHEREAS, following law school, Anthony Sutin clerked for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a judge who remembered Anthony Sutin as "a pragmatic visionary who came to Grundy to build a great law school"; and

WHEREAS, following several years with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan & Hartson, Anthony Sutin held three senior positions in the United States Department of Justice from 1994 to 1999; and

WHEREAS, Anthony Sutin was a founder and deputy director of the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office, which was formed to carry out President Clinton's pledge to put 100,000 additional police officers on the nation's streets; and

WHEREAS, Anthony Sutin then served as principal deputy to the Associate Attorney General of the United States, responsible for oversight of the civil, civil rights, environmental, antitrust, and tax divisions; and

WHEREAS, Attorney General Janet Reno named Anthony Sutin Acting Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, the Justice Department's chief representative and advocate before the United States Congress; and

WHEREAS, Anthony Sutin and his wife, Margaret Lawton, both came to Grundy in 1999 as professors at the Appalachian School of Law, and Anthony Sutin became Dean of the law school shortly thereafter; and

WHEREAS, remembered by his current and former colleagues, his students, and his many friends and admirers as a man dedicated to his family and his profession, Dean L. Anthony Sutin will be sorely missed at the law school he did so much to build; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the untimely passing of an exceptional attorney, public servant, and educator, Dean L. Anthony Sutin; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Dean L. Anthony Sutin as an expression of the high regard in which his memory is held by the members of the General Assembly.