Winners of the Martin P. Burks Moot Court Competition

The Martin P. Burks Moot Court Competition was started in 1953 and was last held in 1989.  Martin Parks Burks graduated from Washington College in 1870 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1872.  In 1899, Burks became a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.  He served as dean from 1903 until 1917, when he was elected to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.  From 1917 until 1928, the year of his death, he sat on Virginia’s highest court.   

 In addition to the Burks Moot Court Competition, the Burks Scholar program and the Burks Senate of the Delta Theta Pi law fraternity are named after Burks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winners of the Martin P. Burks Moot Court Competition

1953                Donald S. Cohen

1954                William M. Bailey

1955                Douglas Buck

1956                Kingswood Sprott Jr.

1957                Patrick D. Sullivan

1958                Charles E. Swope

1959                George H. Fralin, Jr.

1960                Robert E. Sheperd, Jr.

1961                William H. Clark

1962                William H. Clark

1963                Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr.

1964                Stanley H. Walton, III

1965                Raymond H. Vizethann

1966                Larry E. Hepler

1967                Andrew E. Colclough

1968                Norman H. Singer

1969                Beverly C. Read

1970                John J. E. Markham, II

1971                William P. Williams

1972                Gregory N. Stillman

1973                Charles J. Brown, III

1974                John A. Thorton

1975                William J. Braaksma

1976                William Ray Price

1977                Waller T. Dudley & John T. Jessee

1978                Jacquelyn K. Boyden

1979                Melissa J. Warner 

1980                Mark E. Cavanagh

1981                Deborah H. Combs

Deborah Combs makes her winning argument during the 1981 Burks Finals.

1982                James M. Hicks, Jr.

1983                Nancy A. Hullett

1984                Mary Lee Doane

1985                Gary A. Bryant

1986                Andrea E. Tomaino

1987                Vito A. Gagliardi, Jr.

1988                Scot A. Duvall

1989                Andrea Pierce

Winners of the Martin P. Burks Best Brief Award

1970                Philip G. Gardner

1971                Michael C. Bynane

1972                William F. Etherington

1973                Richard F. Biribauer

1974                Thomas P. O’Dell

1975                Stephen I. Greenhalgh

1976                Pamela Rogers

1977                Matthew J. Calvert

1978                James P. Osick

1979                James N. Neale

1980                Catharine McG. Gilliam

1981                Rebecca M. Sasscer

1982                H. Jane North

1983                Seth C. Prager

1984                Patricia K. Suter

1985                Mary Ann R. Burmester

1986                John E. Holleran

1987                Robert W. Pontz

1988                Scot A. Duvall