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Out of State Non Judicial Function Dates Found on Web Sites as of May, 2005.

 

  1. November 10, 2002. Sunday, Washington, D.C. C-SPAN, Cable Television, Booknotes, 6:00 A.M. Frank J. Williams, “Judging Lincoln.”

 

  1. December 14, 2002,            Harrogate, Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University, Saturday, Chief Justice Frank J. Williams received honorary degree and gave speech.

 

  1. February 10, 2003. Washington, D.C. Meeting of The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission with its Advisory Committee at the Smithsonian Institution.

 

  1. February 19, 2003. Seattle Washington. “The 95th annual Lincoln Day Banquet, sponsored by the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association, will be held February 19 at the Tacoma Sheraton Hotel. Dinner will be at 7:00 p.m., preceded by no-host cocktails at 6:00. Keynote speaker will be Chief Justice Frank J. Williams of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Justice Williams is a noted Lincoln scholar, author of the book Judging Lincoln, and owner of a vast collection of Lincoln memorabilia.”

 

  1.  October 16, 17, 18,  2003.  Key Speaker, Frank J. Williams. International Lincoln Center for American Studies,LSU in Shreveport, 323 Bronson Hall, One University Place, Shreveport, LA. “The conference begins at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, with brief opening ceremonies in the University Center. Williams will chair a general session on “Jefferson Relations” from 8:15 to 9:45 a.m.” “Two concurrent sessions from 10 to 11:45 a.m. will be “Jefferson, Lincoln and the First Amendment” and “Jefferson World View and Legacy.” Williams will chair another general session, “Jefferson and Lincoln Abroad (Israel, Cuba, England and Venezuela),” from 1:45 to 3:30 p.m.  “The institute was funded by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). The lecture has received C-SPAN coverage, and has been a recipient of an award from the Abraham Lincoln Association and underwriting from the LEH. It is named in honor of Frank J. Williams, Chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and his wife Virginia, an active lecturer.”

 

  1. February 12, 2004, Thursday,“The Chief Justice of Rhode Island”, Frank J. Williams will be guest speaker. Cocktails at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Lincoln Association of Jersey City, New. Jersey, at the Casino on the Park.

 

  1. February 20, 2004,  Friday,  Peoria, Illinois, Dinner Speech, “On February 20,[2004], a noted authority on both Lincoln and Grant will speak to the Peoria County Bar Association’s dinner***”. “Renowned Lincoln author, editor, and collector, the Hon. Frank J. Williams, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, will speak at Peoria’s Hotel Pere Marquette for the Bar’s 96th Lincoln Memorial Banquet.”

 

  1. March 27, 2004. Saturday, “Providence College History Professor and Students Will Join RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams in Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Boston on Saturday, March 27, 2004” “Providence, RI  -- Four Providence College students will join Rev. Jon Alexander, O.P., Ph.D., associate professor of history; and RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams for a research presentation at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) on Saturday, March 27, 2004 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place from 3:30-5:30 p.m.”

 

 

  1. May 5, 2004, Wednesday, Washington, D.C., The Heritage Foundation, “Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties in Wartime by the Honorable Frank J. Williams, Heritage Lecture, #834.

 

  1. November 19, 2004; Friday, Speech by Frank J. Williams, Chair of the Lincoln Forum, Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

 

  1. December 15, 2004. Sweet Briar College, Virginia, Virginia Law-Related Education Center. VALREC is part of a nationwide network of legal education centers under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Youth for Justice Program. Five private national institutions (the American Bar Association, the Center for Civic Education, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, Street Law, and Phi Alpha Delta) form a national partnership that oversees the fifty state law-related education centers. Sweet Briar College’s Center for Civic Renewal was selected in Fall 2002 by these five national organizations to house the law-related education center for the Commonwealth of Virginia. VALREC coordinates law-related and civics education programs and initiatives throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. I The 2nd annual meeting of the VALREC Advisory Board was held on Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at the Freedom Forum Headquarters in Arlington, VA.  Board members discussed the progress made by the Center in 2004 and heard plans for 2005.  VALREC staff and board members are enthusiastic about upcoming events and the growth of the Center.  VALREC Advisory Board members include the following: *** Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, Supreme Court of Rhode Island

 

  1. February 11, 2005, Friday, Washington, D.C.,Attendance at White House Dinner and Show with President George Bush, as Member of  The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

 

  1. March 21, 2005, Monday, 7:00 P.M. Franklin Pierce Law Center, New Hampshire, “The life of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer and how it contributed to his leadership as president and commander-in0chief will be the focus of a lecture by the Honorable Frank J. Williams of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.”

 

  1. April 2, 2005, Saturday, Rochester Institute of Technology, N.Y. 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. Speaker, Frank J. Williams.

 

  1. April 7, 2005, Thursday, Lincoln Group of New York, Chief Justice Frank J. Williams  Lecturing on: “Crime and Punishment, Murder and Myth: The Lincoln Assassination Trial in Law and Lore”

 

  1. April 15, 2005, Friday, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 pm. World Talk Radio, Frank J. Williams: “Judging History”.

 

  1. April 17, 2005,  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Official Dedication Celebration, Springfield, Illinois, “ Frank J. Williams , Moderator, Sunday, “2:00 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. Lincoln, Slavery, and Race” as a Member of The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

 

  1. April 18, 2005, Monday, Springfield, Illinois   Report of he Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.7:30 A.M. Breakfast Meeting.

 

  1. April 19, 2005, Tuesday, Attendance as a Member of The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. at the Dedication of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, Speech by President George Bush,

 

  1. May 20,2005, Friday, Television Show, Book Commentary, Frank J. Williams, Judging History.

 

  1. May 5, 2005,  Thursday, Madison, Wisconsin. State of Wisconsin Bar Association, “Bench and Bar Keynote Speaker Luncheon, Thursday, 11:45-1:15 P.M. Midwest Airlines Center, Ballroom D, Speaker: Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, Supreme Court of Rhode Island *** Lincoln and Civil Liberties-Then and Now.”

 

  1. November, 16, 17, and 18th, 2005.  November 16, the 10th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium 2005 Schedule, Wednesday, November 16, ,6:00 P.M. Welcome to The Symposium: Hon. Frank J. Williams; Thursday, November 17th, 1:30 p.m. Moderator, Frank J. Williams; Friday, November 18th-7:30 a.m. Annual Board of Advisors breakfast meeting.

 

  1. Unknown 2005            Public Broadcasting System Show; The American Experience, “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided” Frank J. Williams provided voice over commentary. Transcript Available. Name Listed as Judge Frank Williams.

 

  1. January 20, 2006. Friday, West Palm Beach, Florida, The West Palm Beach Civil War Symposium, 9:45 a.m. -10:45 A.M., “Murder and Myth: The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore-Frank J. Williams.”

 

BOOKS:

Judging Lincoln. By Frank J. Williams. Foreword by Harold Holzer. Epilogue by John Y. Simon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 205. Illus., notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00).



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