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Walter Woods Bussart, ’91, passed away peacefully at his home in Nashville on October 25, 2022 at the age of eighty. Walter attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he served as President of the Student Body. After graduating from the University of Tennes- see College of Law in 1966, Walter clerked for Justice Thomas Dyer of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Over his distinguished career, he partnered in law practice with notable lawyers, including Senator Fred Thompson and his daughter, Lee Bussart. He served as Speaker of the House of Delegates for the Tennessee Bar Association and was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives to serve in the 90th General Assembly. He was chosen as the Marshall County General Sessions Judge in 1972 and later appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 1997. Walter was a member of the Tennessee National
Guard and rose to the rank of Colonel during his thirty-two years of service. Walter is sur- vived by his two daughters, three grandchildren, and his companion, Barbara Kellett.
The Honorable Lawrence L. Cameron, ’71, Navy Vet- eran, Boston Police Officer, Lawyer, Chief Justice of the South Boston District Court, and Life Trustee of Suffolk University, passed away on November 6, 2022 at 103 years old. Judge Cameron was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving in both the European and Pacific theatres in World War II. In 1946 he joined the Boston Police Department where he worked while at- tending college and law school at Suffolk University. In 1955 he joined the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. In 1974 he was appointed Justice of the South Boston District Court and he held court until his retire- ment in 1989. Judge Cameron was married to his part- ner in life and law Barbara G. Cameron for forty-three years until her passing in 1993. He married his second wife Irene Hughes in 1998 and they enjoyed fourteen years together until her passing in 2012.
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Former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, ’77, was eighty-seven when he passed on October 17, 2022 of complications from Parkinson’s. “He was a great man and a total gentleman,” former Maryland Gov. Martin J. O’Malley said. “Even when Ben Civi- letti was out of the public limelight, he was still active and cared deeply about politics and his country’s jour- ney.” Ben attended Johns Hopkins University, where he was an accomplished athlete, playing on the foot- ball, baseball and basketball teams. Ben attended law school at Columbia University and obtained his law de- gree in 1961 from the University of Maryland School of Law. While a law school student, Ben married the former Gaile L. Lundgren. After a clerkship for U.S. District Court Judge Calvin Chesnut, Ben spent two years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland before entering private practice. Attorney General (and later College President) Griffin Bell re- cruited Ben to the Department of Justice, where he served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division and then as Deputy Attorney Gen- eral, before succeeding Judge Bell as Attorney General.
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