The 2023 Schedule

Six CLE credits are expected to be approved for this Institute.
All faculty and guest speakers listed are expected to appear as of this date.

Thursday, October 19
Optional Activities at Monticello

TBD Tours of Monticello

5:00 Cocktail Reception, Montalto Terrace

6:30 Dinner, Montalto Conservatory

Keynote Speaker: Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory, Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals
Note: Shuttle service will depart from the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center for all above events.

Friday, October 20
Voting Rights: Democracy at a Crossroads

Shuttle service will be transporting guests from the Visitor Center at Monticello to Montalto. 


8:00 Registration, David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center at Monticello

8:30 Light Breakfast, Montalto Dining Room 

9:00 Introduction and Welcome, Montalto Conservatory

Raymond M. White, Executive Director, Virginia Law Foundation

9:15 Opening Remarks

Gardiner Hallock, Interim President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation 

9:30 History of Voting Rights in the U.S.

Professor Bertrall Ross, University of Virginia School of Law
Professor Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University School of Law 
Moderator and Committee Advisor: Rudene Mercer Haynes, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth 
Committee Advisor: Alison McKee, Of Counsel, Kaufman & Canoles

10:45 Break, Montalto Dining Room

11:00 Voting Rights after Milligan and Moore

Christopher A. Duggan, Smith Duggan Cornell & Gollub LLP 
Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School
Moderator and Committee Advisor:
Raymond M. White, Executive Director, Virginia Law Foundation

12:30 Lunch, Montalto Conservatory

Featuring Richard Stengel, Former Managing Editor of TIME magazine and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

1:30 Local Administration of Elections

Professor Joshua A. Douglas, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
Professor Gilda R. Daniels, University of Baltimore School of Law
Chris Piper, Executive Director, Virginia Public Access Project/Former Commissioner of the state Department of Elections
Committee Advisor:
Lonnie D. Nunley, III, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

3:00 Break, Montalto Dining Room

3:15 Redistricting and the Virginia Redistricting Commission

Professor Rebecca Green, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Elections Law Program, William & Mary School of Law  
Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr., Attorney at Law, Durrette, Arkema, Gerson & Gill PC 
Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, Former Executive Director of Virginia’s ACLU 
Moderator: Professor Henry “Hank” Chambers, Jr., School of Law, University of Richmond 
Committee Advisor: Richard H. Ottinger, Attorney, Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black
Committee Advisor:
Michael HuYoung, Shareholder, Barnes & Diehl, P.C./Member, Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference

5:00 Closing Remarks