Augusta Law School

Augusta Law School was first established in Augusta, Georgia in 1833.^[1] It was the first law school in Georgia and in the Deep South.^[1] It was modeled after the influential Litchfield Law School, and was founded by William Tracy Gould, a graduate of Litchfield and the son of its director, James Gould.^[1] The law school closed in 1854.^[1]

A second Augusta Law School opened in Augusta, Georgia on December 7, 1947.^[2] W. K. Miller was its dean.^[2] It operated into the 1980s.^[3] It had a chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa law fraternity.^[4]

• Clement A. Evans, senior officer of the Confederate States Army, minister, and soldier
• Bull Fulcher, head football coach of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Alex Harvin, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
• David J. Swann, member of the Georgia House of Representatives