Estate Gift Creates Endowed Law Scholarship

July 17, 2008

Thanks to the generous bequest from the estate of Robert B. "Bob" Broughton (JD '51), the Wake Forest School of Law will be able to establish an endowed scholarship in his name. Mr. Broughton, who credited his Wake Forest law professors with inspiring him to pursue a legal career, died in Raleigh in 2007. In addition to this estate gift, Mr. Broughton had previously created two charitable gift annuities to benefit the Wake Forest law school in the future. These gifts will allow the law school to provide needed financial aid to many deserving law students.

After many years in private practice in Raleigh, Bob Broughton became general counsel for the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation and its affiliates, including the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company. An active volunteer and community citizen, Mr. Broughton was former chairman of the Raleigh Housing Authority, served on the Executive Committee of the Wake County Bar and was active in the N.C. Bar Association. He was a lifetime member of the Wake Forest Law Board of Visitors. The Broughton family's long and close association with Wake Forest dates back to the early twentieth century when Bob's father, J. Melville Broughton ('10), was a student and later attorney at the original campus before becoming governor of the state of North Carolina (1941-45) and serving as a United States senator (1948-49).