Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Gary Charles Leedes

Gary Charles Leedes, emeritus professor who taught at the University of Richmond law school for 26 years, died Nov. 4 after a short illness. He was 74.

A Philadelphia native, Dr. Leedes received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, a law degree from Temple University and master’s and doctor of scientific jurisprudence degrees from Harvard law school.

He developed an interest in home schooling while he was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis in 1986 and helped draft legislation to legalize it there and in Virginia when he returned to UR. He received the university’s educator of the year award in 1998.

Dr. Leedes worked with the Rutherford Institute, a civil rights organization in Charlottesville, and with churches involved with free exercise of religion cases. He also was a legal adviser to the Virginia Military Institute in its unsuccessful effort to remain an all-male college.

After retiring from the law school in 1999, he researched and wrote on the Trinity, the New Testament books of Romans and Revelations and on the way Jews and Christians interpret and apply scripture.

He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Carol Broorks Leedes, a son and two stepgrandchildren.

Henry Taylor Wickham

Henry Taylor Wickham, a retired partner from the firm of Mays & Valentine, died Nov. 10 at The Hermitage in Richmond. He was 88.

A native of Richmond, Mr. Wickham earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II on the U.S.S. Knight.

He began his legal career as an assistant Virginia attorney general and was a special assistant to Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in the state’s unsuccessful effort to avoid integration of public schools.

He joined Mays & Valentine, which later merged with Troutman Sanders LLP, in 1954 and remained with the firm until he retired in 1988.

James C. Roberts, one of many Mays & Valentine lawyers to whom Mr. Wickham was a mentor, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “He wanted to make sure clients were well-represented and provided me an opportunity to grow.”

A lifetime member of St. James’s Episcopal Church, Mr. Wickham served on the boards of the Valentine Museum and Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Survivors include Margaret Gearing Wickham, his wife of 61 years, three daughters, a son, seven grandchildren and five stepgrandchildren.

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