Former Gov. Wilder to mark his historic inauguration's 30th anniversary at VUU
3/6/2020, 6 a.m.
A daylong leadership symposium honoring the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first African-American elected governor, will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at Virginia Union University’s Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center, 1500 N. Lombardy St.
The symposium, “L. Douglas Wilder: Continuing 30 Years of History, Then & Now,” is sponsored by VUU and the Virginia Commonwealth University Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and will feature lectures, panel discussions and a keynote address by the 89-year-old former governor, who also served as a state senator and Richmond’s mayor.
Other speakers will include Judge Roger L. Gregory, chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who will be on a morning panel on judicial and legislative history, and Dr. Larry Sabato, a political analyst and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who will moderate an afternoon panel on the 2020 election.
Gov. Wilder, an alumnus of VUU and graduate of Howard University School of Law, served as governor from 1990 to 1994.
Registration for the symposium is $25, which includes lunch and a signed copy of Gov. Wilder’s 2015 autobiography, “Son of Virginia: A Life in America’s Political Arena.”
Details and registration: http://bit.ly/2HyUP6h or go to www.facebook.com/events/182167266449363/
