Special Guest Knox President Roger Taylor
Knox President Roger Taylor ('63) has again accepted an invitation to attend Delta Nite.
Despite pledging ADE instead of TKE when he had the chance, President Taylor
has attended every Delta Nite since assuming the presidency of Knox College in
2002.
Taylor is a native of Fulton County, Illinois. After graduating from Knox College in 1963, he served in the
United States Navy for three and one-half years, including a year in Viet Nam,
before Northwestern law school in 1968. Taylor retired in 1999 from the law
firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where he practiced for 30 years and remains Of
Counsel. He was a partner in the firm, which has nearly 800 attorneys in
offices in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles and London. Taylor
joined the Knox Board of Trustees in 1988 and was Board Chair from 1999 to
2001.