MILWAUKEE – David E. Beckwith, a prominent Milwaukee attorney, former president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, and community leader, died Saturday, April 14, 2012, in hospice at Saint John?s on The Lake. He was 84. Mr. Beckwith was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduating with degrees in labor economics B.S. and an LL.B. from the law school. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Order of Coif, and leading articles editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
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