UK Hires General Counsel

{Lexington, Kentucky}...William Thro, a Kentucky native who has spent most of his professional life in Virginia, has been named general counsel at the University of Kentucky, starting October 15th with an annual salary of $200,000. Thro, who replaces Barbara Jones, who retired in June, is currently general counsel at Christopher Newport University, a liberal arts institution of about 4,700 students in Newport News. He served as assistant attorney general and solicitor general for three attorneys general in the Commonwealth of Virginia between 1997 and 2008. He graduated from Hanover College and received a Master of Arts with Honors from the University of Melbourne in Australia. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review.