Willard Boyd
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Position: Professor of Law and President Emeritus
Organization: College of Law, University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, IA
Willard Boyd is a member of the Small Organizations Work Group.
Willard L. Boyd is a lawyer and an educator. Currently the Rawlings-Miller Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, he is president emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum of Chicago. He is one of the founders of the Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center, and has been appointed by Governor Tom Vilsack to chair a task force on the role of nonprofits in the state. Mr. Boyd has served as chairman of the American Association of Universities, the National Museum Services Board, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Iowa 2000 and Imagine Iowa. He has been a member of the National Council on the Arts, the advisory board of the Metropolitan Opera, and the board of directors of Americans for the Arts, Illinois Arts and Humanities Councils, and Humanities Iowa. Mr. Boyd received his B.S.L. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Minnesota and his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.