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James Dickson Phillips

James Dickson Phillips Jr. was an assistant director of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill in 1948–1949, taught at the UNC School of Law from 1960 to 1978, and was its dean from 1964 to 1974. President Carter appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1978. He died in Chapel Hill in 2017.

Source: Federal Judicial Center: Phillips, James Dickson, Jr. (Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges)

1922–2017 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr. : A digital collection / by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library.

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An online collection assembled by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on James Dickson Phillips, Jr., 1922 to 2017, who taught at the university's law school before serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Topics include judges and law teachers in North Carolina.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Phillips, James Dickson, 1922-2017.

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  1. George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government Recruited by Coates at Harvard Law School that spring, Esser and McMahon started the same day, joining new Carolina law graduates Donald McCoy and Dickson Phillips; Philip Green came a few months later. It was the largest group of assistant directors Coates had yet employed, and he put them to work on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg study. People: Albert Coates, James Dickson Phillips, Philip P. Green Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 215
  2. Dickson Phillips joins the UNC law faculty After a decade of law practice in Laurinburg and Fayetteville, J. Dickson Phillips returned to the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill as a lecturer and associate professor. He stayed on the faculty until 1978.Search the index · Federal Judicial Center: Phillips, James Dickson, Jr. (Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges)
  3. Dickson Phillips serves as dean of the UNC School of Law Phillips led the law school for ten years. Enrollment nearly doubled, from 376 to 700, the school moved into the new Van Hecke-Wettach Hall in 1968, and he started the Holderness Moot Court program and widened the clinical courses.Search the index · Kathrine R. Everett Law Library: Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr., Professor and Dean of the Law School
  4. Dickson Phillips receives the Thomas Jefferson Award The University of North Carolina faculty gave Phillips its Thomas Jefferson Award, its highest faculty honor, the year before he left the law school for the federal appeals court.Search the index · Kathrine R. Everett Law Library: Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr., Scholarship and Public Service

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