RICHMOND LAWYER TO HEAD U.VA. NURSING BOARD
        CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., June 20 --James C. Roberts of the
Richmond
law firm May & Valentine was recently named chair of the University of
Virginia School of Nursing Advisory Board.
        Roberts has helped to raise more than $2 million for the
school
through gifts and grants from foundations and corporations. His
daughter
earned both baccalaureate and masters in nursing degrees from U.Va.
        "Jim is a natural to assume the chairmanship.  He was a
charter
member of the board and also serves as a consultant to our Campaign
Steering Committee," said Jeanette Lancaster, dean and Sadie Heath
Cabaniss
Professor of Nursing. "Jim believes in the work of nurses and in the
School
of Nursing.  He is willing to devote his time and immeasurable
knowledge
and influence to help us."
        A graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and the University of
Richmond
law school, Roberts is on the Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Military
Institute and serves as trustee of the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial
Foundation.
        The Richmond-based foundation has funded scholarships for
undergraduate nursing and medical school students, and a feasibility
study
for home health care in central Virginia, as well as U.Va. hospital's
Gamma
knife facility.  The Thomas Foundation has also given $2 million to
the
schools of Medicine and Nursing for scholarships, professorships and a
nursing Intensive Care Simulation Lab.
        Roberts specializes in civil litigation, criminal defense,
domestic
relations and lobbying and related work with the State Corporation
Commission.