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Summary of events: Georgia State University was originally established in 1913 as an evening school for Georgia Tech. By 1953, they gained complete independence and, by 1969, fulfilled their mission to provide high quality programs to the Atlanta metro area... paying close attention to the needs of the area, especially working students and students with family. Providing degrees in business, liberal arts, education and other fields, they were lacking the discipline of legal education. In 1974, the Board of Regents studied and approved the establishment of a GSU Law school but it was never funded.

The Woodrow Wilson College of Law was a private, non-profit Law School fully accredited by the Georgia Supreme Court. WWCoL offered a curriculum with a similar ideology as GSU, in that, they also provided study in the evenings. The only other law schools to offer untraditional hour studies was the University of Miami and Memphis. In 1980, while in the process of ABA accreditation, the trustees generously offered all their assets in real property, securities and cash to GSU.

In 1981, when it became known that GSU was again trying to establish a Law School, the Board of Visitors of the University of Georgia School of Law set out to oppose "another state-supported law school". They successfully stopped the transaction utilizing Lawyer to Population ratio tables. Unfortunately, it was discovered the data was incorrect and later corrected by the SREB (southern region education board) on August 13, 1981.

WWCoL Alums

• William Rhymer
• John Taylor then later his wife Lynn Taylor served as president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy
• Charles F. Peebles
• Tom Barton a Glynn County, Georgia, public defender
• Judge George H. Bryant Northern Judicial Circuit of Georgia
• Tad D. Ransopher Professor at Robinson College of Business and formerly at GSU College of Law
• Harold S Willingham (1916 - 2000)
• Ronnie_Thompson_(Georgia_politician) - (one quarter)
• LTC Monroe Fletcher “Buddy” Stamps Jr. (1926-2015)
• Jack Harris Speir (1936-2021)
• Sarah Wayman - alt
• John Calvin Stanfield
• more to come...

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