Virginia Life Fellow Thomas G. Slater, Jr.
May 3, 2008, Fellows in the news, Lexington News-Gazette
Thomas G. Slater, Jr., a partner in the Richmond law firm Hunter & Williams, was elected president of the Virgina Military Institute's board of visitors at the board's meeting on May 3.
Slater's term begins July 1 when he will take the place of G. Gilmer Minor III, chairman of Owens & Minor Inc., a Richmond-based Fortune 500 distributor of medical and surgical supplies. Minor, a 1963 VMI graduate, was elected president of board three years ago and has been a member of the board since 2000.
Slater has been a member of the board since 2003 and has been active in VMI alumni organizations since his graduation.
He graduated from VMI with a bachelor's degree in history in 1966. He then attended the University of Virginia law school where he received his LLB in 1969. At VMI, Slater was on the dean's list, co-captain of the varsity football team, a letterman on the varsity football team and president of the Monogram Club.
Slater has been with the Hunton & Williams law firm since 1969. He became a partner in the firm in 1976 and is currently co-head of the firm's Litigation-IP and Antitrust Group (approximately 300 lawyers). He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, American Bar Foundation and Virginia Law Foundation. He is past president of the bar association of the city of Richmond and served on the executive committee of the Virginia State Bar from 1996-1998. He is a director of Tredegar Corporation and a trustee of the Virginia Historical Society.
Slater is married to the former Martha Scott "Scottie" Newell.
The board also elected three vice presidents: Paul D. Fraim, a member of the VMI class of 1971, of Norfold; and William A. Paulette, VMI class of 1969, and James E. Rogers, VMI class of 1967, both of Richmond.
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