Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 29, 1993 TAG: 9304290253
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
The Montgomery-Radford-Floyd Bar Association has organized "Law Day," at which time memorials to the deceased will be unveiled and speakers will honor each man individually.
Those who will be remembered include:
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Dalton, who died in 1989 at the age of 88.
Dalton was appointed a federal judge in 1959 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower but his place in Virginia history is based as much on his political career before going on the bench.
A native of Carroll County, Dalton started his law firm in 1930. He served two terms as Radford's commonwealth's attorney and four terms in the state Senate.
He ran for governor twice in the 1950s.
The Hon. Jacque Wayne Pierce, a Montgomery County juvenile and domestic relations judge who died in 1989 at age 62.
Before becoming a judge in 1982, Pierce practiced law with General District Court Judge Thomas Frith.
Bentley Hite who died in February 1992 at 91, had practiced law in Montgomery County for more than 60 years. Hite was a member of the House of Delegates and was Montgomery County's commonwealth's attorney during the 1930s.
Hite appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case in which the poll tax was ruled unconstitutional.
He helped start the Christiansburg-Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and taught Sunday school.
Edward Michael Jasie, who died in August 1991 at 48.
Jasie was a welfare rights lawyer in Newark, N.J., in the early 1970s when his brother-in-law, who had been hiking the Appalachian Trail, told him about Craig County. He and his wife moved there and, only four months after setting up his law practice, Jasie was elected commonwealth's attorney in Craig County.
His family later moved to where he practiced law in a one-man office.
William Tucker Winder, a Christiansburg lawyer and former member of Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.
The Hon. Jacob Marker Dern, a retired administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Dern also worked for the Justice Department as a civil rights lawyer.
by CNB