A portrait of Justice Robert H. Jackson painted by portrait
artist Lurabel Colburn will be dedicated at 9 a.m. Saturday at
the Robert H. Jackson Center at Fifth and Prendergast in
Jamestown.
The public is cordially invited to meet Ms. Colburn and members
of the family of Justice Jackson.
The program will consist of a welcome by Gregory L. Peterson,
Jackson Center president; a dedicatory speech by John Q.
Barrett, professor of law from St. John’s University School of
Law, who is the Robert H. Jackson Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow;
and the presentation of the gift by Ms. Colburn.
Ms. Colburn studied at the Cleveland School of Art, where
she majored in portraiture. She has since been an art teacher and
has become a most highly regarded portrait painter.
Her portrait of Justice Jackson will hang forever in a place of
honor at the Jackson Center.
The Jackson Center is an historical and educational facility
dedicated to preserving the great legacy of this country lawyer
who became solicitor general and attorney general of the United
States, a justice of the Supreme Court, and who served as chief
prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals following
World War II.
One of the Jackson Center’s prime objectives is to keep the
nation ever mindful of the need to confront the unending dangers
of aggressive wars and crimes against humanity.
A reception will follow.