Honorary Doctor of Law

2011 Honorary Doctor of Law Recipient

Photograph: Richard Hite.Richard C. 'Dick' Hite received a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas in 1950. He received a juris doctor degree from Washburn University School of Law in 1953. He served as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force from 1953-1956.

Hite has practiced in Wichita since 1957 and is currently a partner in Hite, Fanning & Honeyman L.L.P. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation.

Hite has been active in civic and professional organizations. Among other things, he has been president of the United Way of the Plains, Kansas State Delegate to the American Bar Association, president of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, chairman of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission, president of Kansas Association of Defense Counsel, and president of Washburn Law Alumni Association.

Hite was Washburn Law's recipient of the 2008 Alumni Fellow, an awards program of the Washburn University Alumni Association and University Deans, which was created in 1992. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007, an award given annually by the Washburn University School of Law Alumni Association. This award is bestowed on those alumni who have particularly distinguished themselves and brought recognition to the school through public service and through their service to the Washburn University School of Law, the legal profession, or their community. And, in 1994, Hite was honored by the law school with the Distinguished Service Award.

(D indicates Deceased; no award given in unlisted years)