Lewis H Van Dusen

Lewis Van Dusen’s accomplishments spanNED more than half a century. They rangeD from serving as president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, to working toward international justice as the first Director of the United States Representation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the early 1950s. For the intense focus he brought to the study and literature of legal ethics, he received the Michael Franck award, the highest award the ABA gives for professional responsibility.

Mr. Van Dusen, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, served in North Africa, Normandy and Southern Europe in World War II. He was assistant to the chief of staff of the Allied Military Government in Sicily and southern Italy.

Mr. Van Dusen was a Director of the Greater Philadelphia Movement and served for 35 years as Chairman of the Inglis House Board of Advisors. He sat on the boards of both International Utilities and Campbell Soup Company. Mr. Van Dusen also served as a trustee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Divinity School, the Episcopal Academy, and Princeton University.

He graduated from Princeton summa cum laude in 1932, ranking number one in his class. Mr. Van Dusen then attended Harvard Law school. He completed his legal education at New College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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