William Durland was born on 1931 and is an American politician, attorney, environmental and peace activist, author and educator who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and later in Colorado local offices.
17 Facts About William Durland
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William Durland graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1949, then attended Bucknell University and received a bachelor's degree with honors in history and political science in 1953, and married the following year.
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William Durland attended Georgetown Law School after his military service described below, where he worked on the staff of the Georgetown Law Journal and graduated with an LLB in 1959, then continued graduate legal studies at the George Washington Law School and Georgetown Law Center and received a JD in 1967.
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William Durland served overseas in the US Army Medical Service Corps from 1954 to 1957 during the Korean conflict.
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William Durland joined the reserves during his law school studies and remained in the US Army JAG Corps for a decade, during the Vietnam War.
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William Durland was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin and the District of Columbia in 1960, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1963 and the Virginia state bar in 1965.
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Bill William Durland held numerous positions in the Democratic Party between 1958 and 2023, initially in Virginia, and later in Colorado.
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William Durland considered his achievements as creating Mason Neck State Park, passing historic sites legislation as well as a governmental conflict of interest law, various laws protecting children and consumers, and co-sponsoring constitutional revisions in the new Virginia Constitution adopted in 1970.
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In 1972 Durland ran unsuccessfully as an Independent for the 8th Virginia congressional district, but both he and the Democratic candidate, former Marine and long-term Fairfax prosecutor Robert F Horan Jr.
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In 1990 William Durland was elected as the Vice-Mayor and Council member of the Town of Cokedale, Colorado, and in 1995 was elected as a member of the City Council of the city of Trinidad, Colorado.
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William Durland practiced in the areas of international, constitutional and human right laws for more than five decades.
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In 2008 William Durland served on the defense teams of Robin Long and Daniel Sandate the first two US soldiers deported from Canada, after having fled to Canada to avoid fighting in the Iraq War.
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William Durland has at various times taught philosophy, history and government at Purdue University, Villanova University, the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University and in the Colorado Community College System.
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William Durland taught peace and justice courses at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study and Contemplation Center in Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1988.
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William Durland became a peace and justice activist in 1958, while studying law.
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William Durland served as director of the Virginia Mental Health Association, Virginia Retarded Children's Association and the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, and was the chairman of the Conservation Committee for Mason Neck.
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William Durland has two sons and a daughter from his marriage to Leona Semenas.