My Educational Foundation

J. Mark Breeding ’74 is grateful for the educational foundation he received at The Kinkaid School. Mark is an attorney and partner for Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, specializing in eminent domain and condemnation law. Mark has been an active member of the Kinkaid Alumni Board and served as president in 2015.

"My excellent writing skills and oral advocacy skills are directly attributable to what I was taught at Kinkaid. Both college and law school were much easier due to my educational foundation," Mark says. "My favorite teacher was J. Barry Moss, who taught me English, speech, and one semester of Latin. He taught me to respect differing viewpoints that ultimately helped me to succeed in the legal profession. I also learned poise under pressure from him."

Mark and his wife Gayleen’s daughter Grace's graduated in May 2019. "I enjoyed watching Grace walk the halls where I received my education and participating in the profound learning process with amazing teachers," Mark says. “She has been able to traverse the Kinkaid educational curriculum that I also went through."

Mark and his family support Kinkaid "in remembrance of the education that the School provided me. I'm quite certain that I wouldn't be the attorney that I am and a partner at a prestigious law firm without the base education that I received. That is also why I was one of the initial contributors to the J. Barry Moss Distinguished Speaker Series. It was in honor of what Mr. Moss did for me in his teachings during my high school education."

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