Reveley graduated with an A.B. in politics from
Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis titled "Between North and South: The
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development." He then received his
J.D. from the
University of Virginia Law School in 1968. He has honorary doctorates from
Hampden-Sydney College,
King University and the College of William & Mary. He is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa,
Order of the Coif, and
ODK. Reveley was an assistant professor of law at the
University of Alabama in 1968–69. He clerked for Justice
William J. Brennan at the
United States Supreme Court in 1969–70. In 1972–73, he studied the war powers as a Fellow of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and an International Affairs Fellow of the
Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. Reveley has served on many cultural and educational boards, including those of
Princeton University,
Union Presbyterian Seminary,
St. Christopher's School, the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation, the Oak Spring Foundation, the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
JSTOR, the
Richmond Symphony, the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the
Virginia Historical Society, and the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Reveley retired as William & Mary's president on June 30, 2018. He was succeeded by
Katherine Rowe, the first woman to lead William & Mary since its founding in 1693. == See also ==