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The Law School faculty voted unanimously last week to grant a lifetime appointment to David B. Wilkins '77, a Black assistant professor, according to a spokesperson there.
If his promotion is approved by President Neil L. Rudenstine, Wilkins will become the first Black legal scholar to be offered tenure by Harvard since Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy in 1989.
Wilkins, who held a tenure-tracked position, will boost the total number of tenured Black professors at the Law School to four.
Wilkins is a graduate of the Law School and hasbeen an assistant professor there since 1984. Hewas also a legal methods instructor during histime as a student.
In 1981-82, Wilkins was law clerk to SupremeCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall. Subsequently hewas an associate at the Washington trial law firmof Nussbaum, Owen and Webster, specializing incivil litigation.