Ronnie A. Yoder (Col ’58, Law ’61) has served as the chief administrative law judge of the Virginia Department of Transportation since July 1, 2001, and has served as a federal administrative law judge for 33 years at the Department of Transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Department of Labor and other agencies, after spending 14 years in private practice in New York and Washington, D.C. In July 2007, Judge Yoder established the Ronnie A. Yoder Scholarship, for students enrolled at Virginia Theological Seminary as master’s degree candidates in divinity and in theological studies, to advance the study of love as an appropriate philosophical center for Christian theology, life, preaching and practice, and to explore love as an ecumenical theme unifying all religions.
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Robert E. Eicher (Col ’58, Law ’61 L/M) received the Richmond Bar Association’s Professionalism Award for 2008. Mr. Eicher is chair of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board and a former chair of the Standing Committee on Legal Ethics. He is a shareholder in Williams Mullen in Richmond, Va., and is counsel to the firm.
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Norman Crabill (Engr ’58) was inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame by the Virginia Aeronautical Historical Society in Richmond on Nov. 8, 2008. Mr. Crabill spent 37 years with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), serving as mission analysis and design manager for the Project Viking mission to Mars from 1968 to 1976 and for NASA’s Lunar Orbiter program, which found Apollo landing sites and mapped 99 percent of the lunar surface. He initiated the Digital Flight Recorder Program and, in the mid-1970s, designed the NASA Storm Hazards Program, which provided valuable data to the aircraft industry. Mr. Crabill worked for Martin Marietta as a contractor and then formed Aero Space Consultants in 1988. He holds two patents and developed the first weather-in-the-cockpit system using a satellite broadcast in the early 1990s, a system that is in widespread use and has had a major impact on the way general aviation pilots fly in weather. He continues to work as an independent consultant to VIGYAN, an aeronautical engineering firm in Hampton, Va.
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