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Public memorial service for Justice Frank Cleckley to be held at WVU

A public memorial service for Justice Frank Cleckley is planned Sunday (Sept. 24) at 2 p.m. at the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre at the Creative Arts Center. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m.

Cleckley, a long-time attorney and law professor, passed away on August 14. He was the first African-American faculty member at WVU College of Law, and the first full time African-American professor at WVU, and the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Speakers will include Provost Joyce McConnell and Vice President David Fryson.