William A. Davis ’68

Bill died Feb. 19, 2025, at home in Evanston, Ill., following a bout with cancer.

Bill was cheerful and never lost his sense of humor to the end. He was visited a few months before he died by Dwight Johnson and Charles Bethel, who were his Princeton roommates. Bill came to us from Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Ky., where he was student council president and an all-state band member. At Princeton, he was active in the Glee Club and Young Republicans. He majored in politics, lived at 12 Blair Hall, and ate at Quadrangle Club. After graduation, he earned a law degree from Yale.

After Yale, Bill practiced regulatory law in several cities including Chicago, where he headed up AT&T’s Midwest legal division before retiring a few years ago to teach regulatory law as an adjunct at Northwestern Law School.

In retirement, he was an accomplished pianist; he played for the Princeton Glee Club, and played until a few days before he died. As Dwight liked to recall, Bill grew up in Fern Creek, Ky., where he was “Mr. Fern Creek High.”

The class extends its deepest sympathies to his widow, Regina Schwartz Davis; his son, Alexander; and to his extended family and friends.