Harrison to announce retirement sources say

College of William & Mary Law SchoolWilliam & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository 1981 Harrison to announce retirement, sources say Jerry Lazarus Copyright c 1981 by the authors.. Thi

College of William & Mary Law School

William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository

1981

Harrison to announce retirement, sources say

Jerry Lazarus

Copyright c 1981 by the authors This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository.

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Lazarus, Jerry, "Harrison to announce retirement, sources say" (1981) 1976–1985: William B Spong, Jr 13.

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131sf Year, No 345 Richmond, ~Virginia Friday, December 11, 1981

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Jr will shortly announce his

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Harri-son said he was not resigning from the court but added that

if he had plans to step down,

he would notify the governor first before making any

announcement

Gov John N Dalton and Gov.-elect Cbarles ·S Robb, they bad heard something of Harrison's plan~ Robb said that Harrison was the one to

make any such announce-ment, though

The cplnouncement is ex-pected to come next week and the "retirement to take effect next month to allow the Dem-ocrat-eontrolled General As·

sembly to appoint ~

succes-sor It bas been expected for

some time Harrison will be

75 on Jan 11, the mandatory

retirement age affecting him since he was named to the court before July 1, 1970

Jus-tices appointed after that daie must retire at age 70

TIming important

Tbe timing of the an-nouncement was considered the only uncertain point Had

Harrison chosen to retire be-fore the next regular legisla-lican Gov John N Dalton

make an interi.rIl appomtment

to the bench Speculation on his succes-sor is already rife Possibly topping the list is William B Spong Jr • 61, former U.S

sen-ator, current dean of the Col-lege of William and Mary law school and a former law

part-nerof·Lt Gov.-electRichard

J Davis

Spong also has been

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