{"id":70785,"date":"2017-11-13T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=70785"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:50:57","slug":"in-memoriam-william-k-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/13\/in-memoriam-william-k-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: William K. &ldquo;Billy&rdquo; Richardson, accomplished entrepreneur, lawyer and teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_29659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29659\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richardson-w.jpg\" alt=\"William K. Richardson\" width=\"250\" height=\"364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richardson-w.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richardson-w-178x260.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William K. Richardson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>William K. &ldquo;Billy&rdquo; Richardson<\/strong>, an accomplished entrepreneur, lawyer and teacher passed away on November 10. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p> Richardson served as interim director of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/research\/otted\/\"> Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development<\/a> from December 2014 until August 2016. In his lead role, he worked closely with the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/xlr8uh.com\"><abbr title=\"XLR8UH\">XLR8UH<\/abbr><\/a> proof-of-concept center to help program cohorts fully commercially their <abbr>UH<\/abbr>-owned technologies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em>Â鶹´«Ã½News<\/em> story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/24\/entrepreneur-richardson-to-head-uh-technology-transfer-and-commercialization-office\/\"><em>Entrepreneur Richardson to head Â鶹´«Ã½technology transfer and commercialization office<\/em><\/a>, November 24, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The son of late Chief Justice William S. Richardson, the founder and namesake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, Billy Richardson was a consummate supporter of the school. He was often called upon to speak to incoming classes, and would offer witty, loving and insightful stories about his father&#8217;s vision and the early days of the law school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I cannot begin to tell you of the sorrow that we as a community feel. Billy was such a generous and compassionate man, very much like his father, and he was always willing to do everything possible to support the law school, our faculty and especially our students,&rdquo; said Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/personnel\/mackenzie\/melody\"><strong>Melody K. MacKenzie<\/strong><\/a>, who served as a law clerk to CJ Richardson and has known the Richardson family for 50 years. &ldquo;He was a teacher, mentor, and visionary. He will be deeply missed by all of us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/william-k-%E2%80%9Cbilly%E2%80%9D-richardson-son-former-chief-justice-william-s-richardson-passed-away\">Go to the School of Law website for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William K. &ldquo;Billy&rdquo; Richardson, former Â鶹´«Ã½Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development interim director and law school supporter, passed away on November 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[756,563,9,68],"class_list":["post-70785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-in-memoriam","tag-office-of-technology-transfer-and-economic-development","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70785"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70806,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785\/revisions\/70806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}