Bowen Dean Theresa Beiner (center left) presents alum Wylie Cavin III (center right) with a plague naming the Dean's Conference Room in his offer. Also pictured are Christian O'Neal (left), vice chancellor for university advancement, and Wanda Hoover (right), Bowen's assistant dean of external relations.
A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law is donating $269,000 to create the Wylie D. Cavin III Endowed Scholarship.
The scholarship will benefit full- and part-time Bowen students in good academic standing and can be used for tuition, books, fees and room and board. Financial need will be strongly considered, the university said.
In honor of Wylie Cavin III’s gift, the Bowen School of Law renamed the dean’s conference room after him during a Jan. 22 celebration at the school.
Cavin, a Little Rock native who now lives in Austin, Texas, is a 1975 graduate of Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock and a 1979 graduate of Vanderbilt University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
After graduating from college, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and served four years of active duty aboard destroyers. He is a former commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Cavic graduated from Bowen in 1986, having served as editor-in-chief of the UA Little Rock Law Review. He later served as an adjunct instructor of banking law at Bowen.
After law school, Cavin joined Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC, where he practiced corporate law from 1986 to 1995.
In 1996, he entered the banking industry by joining First Commerce Corp. in New Orleans. Cavin co-founded Red River Bancshares Inc., a publicly traded bank holding company, in 1999, where he worked until his retirement in 2010.
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