Wallace graduated from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. Following a brief stint in the NBA, Wallace decided to enroll in law school, earning his degree in 1975 from Columbia University, where he was awarded the Charles Evans Hughes Fellowship. He later worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Today Wallace is a law professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. He says his experience at Vanderbilt sparked his interest in the law.
“After the Vanderbilt experience, I was thinking about justice and equality, how there wasn’t enough of it and how I needed to do something to help,” says Wallace, whose talents may actually have been meant for the court — of law that is.
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