Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Milner, a civil rights activist, was introduced to the real world in 1962 by serving as the pastor of a small Presbyterian church in Manchester, Tennessee and later (1966) as minister of the University Presbyterian Student Center in Athens. While at the Student Center, Milner led a group of Viet Nam war protestors in protesting the Law Day address in Athens of then Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Rusk joined the Georgia Law faculty in 1970, an appointment that had been worked out on the trip back to the airport by Dean Lindsay Cowan and President Fred Davison. The first thing former Secretary Rusk did upon joining the Georgia Law faculty was to hire Milner Ball as his student assistant. Their relationship became so close that Milner and June named their daughter Virginia after Virginia Rusk. Milner graduated first in his class from the Law School in 1971 after serving as editor in chief of the Georgia Law Review.
Recommended Citation
Beaird, J. Ralph
(2007)
"In Honor of Milner Ball,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 41:
No.
3, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol41/iss3/3