DANIEL H. POLLITT ’43

DANIEL H. POLLITT, 88, the Graham Kenan Professor of Law, emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, who was known for his progressive social and political views, died Mar. 5, 2010. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. After receiving his law degree from Cornell University, he clerked for a judge and later worked at a law firm, where he began a lifetime of defending civil rights and civil liberties, and fighting injustices in local, state, and national arenas. In 1957 he moved to Chapel Hill, where he joined the law school faculty as a constitutional and labor law professor. Active in numerous organizations, he had been president of the faculty for four years and won many honors and awards, including the Order of the Long–Leaf Pine, awarded by the Governor of North Carolina for extraordinary service to the state. His first wife, Jean Ann Rutledge Pollitt, died in 2006. Among those who survive are his wife, Eleanor Kinnaird; three children, including Daniel R. Pollitt ’74; five grandsons; three stepchildren; and a large extended family, including Laura Kenney ’82 and Sophie Pollitt–Cohen ’09.