UDALLAS MEDIA ADVISORY: Emmet Flood to speak at University of Dallas 2019 Commencement
Irving, TX (05/08/2019) — The University of Dallas will award over 500 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees on Sunday, May 19, 2019, during the university's 60th annual Spring Commencement Ceremony for the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry, and Satish and Gupta College of Business.
The University of Dallas welcomes Emmet T. Flood, Assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the President, as the 2019 Commencement speaker. Flood received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Dallas in 1978. He was valedictorian, Intramural Athlete of the Year, and a recipient of the Cardinal Spellman Award.
WHAT: 2019 Spring Commencement Ceremony
WHEN: Sunday, May 19, 2019
9 a.m.
WHERE: Braniff Mall
University of Dallas
Irving, TX
A campus map is available here. Parking is limited. Media interested in covering this event should contact Executive Director, Marketing Communications Cliff Smith at 972-721-5194, (cell) 864-616-2972 or casmith@udallas.edu by close of business on Friday, May 17.
About Emmet T. Flood
After graduating from the University of Dallas in 1978 and teaching English at Bishop Lynch High School for a year in Dallas, Flood attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a doctorate in philosophy in 1986. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities at Wesleyan University in 1987-88, then attended Yale Law School, where he was executive committee coordinator of The Yale Law Journal.
Following graduation, he served as law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court of the United States. Flood practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., for many years, and has extensive experience in white collar defense, congressional investigations, complex civil litigation, and crisis management situations. In the private sector, he has represented two presidents, a vice president, other federal and state officials and CEOs, as well as numerous individuals and private businesses.
In addition to his judicial clerkships, Flood's government experience includes service as Counsel to the President, Special Counsel to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President. He is the author of published articles in philosophy, comparative literature, law and political science. Flood has served on the Advisory Council of the Catholic Charities Legal Network of Washington, D.C., and as a member of the Little Flower Parish Finance Council in Bethesda, Maryland. One of six siblings to attend UD, he is married to Ariel Vannier Flood and is the father of four children: Kate, Erin, James and Jack.
About the University of Dallas
The University of Dallas, located in a metropolitan area of nearly 7 million people, is a leading Catholic university widely recognized for academic excellence by well-known publications, organizations and accrediting bodies. It offers distinctive individual undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in the liberal arts, business and ministry that are characterized by an exceptional, engaged faculty, a commitment to shaping principled, well-skilled leaders and academic rigor in the Catholic intellectual tradition. For more information, visit udallas.edu.
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