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Monday, July 2, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
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Brian S. Williams has been named Vice President for Advancement of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Williams, who has been Director of Planned Giving since January 2000, succeeds Gary Francois. Francois, who also holds the Szold Distinguished Service Professorship in Psychology at Knox, has served as interim vice president for the past year.
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"As Director of Planned Giving, Brian Williams has built Knox's planned giving program into a visible and important component of Knox's fund-raising operation," said Roger Taylor, Chair of the Knox College Board of Trustees. "Brian brings energy, new ideas and dedication to the Advancement Office."
A 1986 Knox graduate, Williams majored in American Studies and won the 1986 Dorothy Inness Stanford Award for outstanding academic achievement in American history. In 1989 he graduated with academic honors from Indiana University Law School. He then served as a judicial clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago.
Williams was in private law practice in Chicago from 1990 until 1992, when he entered the graduate program in American history at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he completed a master's degree in 1994. He taught law at Northwestern University, then was senior lecturer and director of the Legal Methods Program at Cornell University Law School, before coming to Knox in 2000.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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