Wesleyan College

RUTH AUSTIN KNOX knows from experience the value of a woman’s college education. She is a 1975 graduate of Wesleyan, magna cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi. From the beginning, her life has been closely tied to the College. The daughter of an alumna, Ruth Hall Knox, Class of 1940, and a trustee, Robert Edward Knox, she has been influenced deeply by aunts, her sister, teachers, and friends — Wesleyannes who served as examples to her of what a Wesleyan Woman can accomplish.

Upon the completion of her degree at Wesleyan with a major in English, she entered the University of Georgia School of Law. In 1978 she received the Juris Doctor Degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Order of the Coif. Admitted to the State Bar of Georgia that same year, Ms. Knox joined a national law firm specializing in a wide range of complex commercial real estate and public finance transactions. Twelve years later, she opened her own practice, again specializing in real estate and estate planning.