Trinity Law School - Notables

Notables

The founding members of the faculty teaching in the Master of Arts program included Harold Lindsell, Walter Martin, Josh McDowell, Eugene Moore, Rod Rosenbladt, Alan Scarfe, Michael R. Smythe, Donald D. Stewart, John Stewart and William Welty.

During the 1980s a variety of distinguished Christian and non-Christian lecturers were invited to speak at the school. The school's prospectus for 1986 listed some of these guest lecturers as including Gleason Archer, Harold O. J. Brown, Herman John Eckelmann, Norman Geisler, Vladimir Kartashkin, Armand Nicholi, Karl Josef Partsch, Arthur Henry Robertson, Francis Schaeffer and R. C. Sproul.

Trinity Law School has had several administrators who are notable. Sameul B. Casey, the president of the Christian Legal Society was Dean of the Simon Greenleaf University during the early 1990s. The first Dean of the law school during the transition from Simon Greenleaf University to Trinity International University was Shannon "Verleur" Spann (a 1990s graduate of Simon Greenleaf Law School), whose husband, Johnny Micheal Spann (a CIA paramilitary operations officer), was the first American killed in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Francis J. Beckwith, professor of Church State Studies at Baylor University earned an MA from Simon Greenleaf and was a professor at the law school during the late 1990s.

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