Marvin Lee Gray Jr. ’66

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Monty died of lymphoma March 26, 2023, at his home in Tacoma, Wash.

He graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., where he was class valedictorian, worked on the school paper and yearbook, and was on the football and wrestling teams.

At Princeton, he majored in mathematics, was a University Scholar, roomed with Mills Thornton and Steve Schreiber, and belonged to Whig-Clio, the bridge club, and Campus Club, where he was house chairman.

Monty graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was articles editor of the law review. His distinguished legal career included clerkships on the Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, and service as staff attorney in the Air Force Office of General Counsel, trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Drug Law Enforcement, assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle, adjunct professor at Seattle University Law School, and instructor at the University of Washington Law School, as well as longtime service as partner in the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm.

Monty is survived by his wife, Jill (sister of classmate Jack Miller); daughters Elizabeth and Carolyn; and grandchildren Westley, Natalie, Sarah, and Jason. The class extends its heartfelt condolences to them all.

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