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Richard Cullen
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Richard Cullen
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Richard Cullen is a 1971 graduate of Furman, where he majored in Political Science and played varsity football. He received a law degree from the University of Richmond in 1977, where he was editor in chief of the law review and a member of ODK. In 1998 he was awarded the University of Richmond Distinguished Alumni Award.
Richard is the chairman of McGuireWoods LLP, a law firm with over 900 lawyers and 18 offices in the United States and abroad. He has spent his professional career at McGuireWoods, taking leave on three occasions for public service assignments. In 1987 he was a special counsel to the U. S. Senate for the Iran-Contra investigation. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, serving from 1991 to 1993. And in 1997, Virginia Governor George Allen appointed him the Commonwealth’s 39th Attorney General.
Richard has been appointed to a number of boards and commissions, including Richmond’s Collegiate School (K-12), the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business Foundation, the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute and the commission that revised Virginia’s criminal sentencing laws, which he co-chaired. He was appointed by the Chief Justice of Virginia to the State's Judicial Council and by the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to chair the Court's Advisory Committee on Rules and Procedures.
Richard previously served on Furman’s advisory and parents councils.
He and his wife Agnes Tullidge Cullen have four grown children. Their two sons, Thomas (2000) and Richard (2007) graduated from Furman, as did Thomas’ wife Amy (2000).
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