MARK R. WEAVER, Esq. ’83, M’85 is a nationally respected attorney and crisis communications expert with nearly four decades of experience advising clients including governors, U.S. senators, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, as well as business and education leaders. Weaver earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public administration from KU, where he also served as a graduate teaching assistant in the political science department. As a freshman at KU, Weaver was elected president of Lehigh Hall and later held top positions on Student Government Board and as a resident assistant in Berks, Rothermel and Johnson halls. He was a student legal advocate and served as chairman of the Student Faculty Judicial Board. His senior year internship was with the Montgomery County (Pa.) Juvenile Probation Department; he later wrote his master’s thesis on the juvenile probation system. Minoring in telecommunications and working as a disc jockey and production manager at the KU radio station prepared Weaver well for his work in communications and media. He has produced more than a thousand TV and radio commercials for campaigns and candidates, earning a dozen national awards for creativity. A few years after earning his second degree from KU, President Ronald Reagan appointed Weaver to be spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. His other government posts have included communications director with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Deputy Attorney General of Ohio, and he serves as a judicial magistrate and acting judge. Weaver later joined a major Columbus law firm as a litigation partner. In that role, he regularly argued in the Supreme Court of Ohio and served as a special prosecutor across the state. Following additional graduate studies at the University of Delaware, Weaver earned his Juris Doctorate from the Delaware Law School at Widener University. He spent two decades as an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University College of Law and the graduate school at University of Akron. The latter awarded Weaver an honorary certificate in Applied Politics and later named him Distinguished Chair of that university’s Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. He is now an adjunct professor at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. KU previously honored Weaver with its inaugural Early Career Excellence Alumni Award and with the Rothermel Outstanding Alumni Award. KU’s Student Government Board also recognized him with its Distinguished Alumni Award. And he was recently inducted into Abington High School’s Hall of Fame from which he graduated in 1979. Weaver regularly lectures around the country on a wide variety of legal and communications topics. He takes his zeal for Kutztown with him – he is still introduced as a proud KU graduate, even to those unfamiliar with the university. His op-ed writing is regularly featured in Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post and other major U.S. newspapers. He has been interviewed by every major national media outlet in America, including 60 Minutes and Nightline. Weaver is the author of an acclaimed book on communications, “A Wordsmith’s Work,” now in its fourth edition. He is finishing a second non-fiction book on crisis communications, and is working to publish his first novel next year. He and his wife, Lori, reside in Central Ohio and are the proud parents of two grown children and an infant grandson.
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