Local businessman Cornelius Prior Jr. has been appointed to the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Law School located in Cambridge, Mass.
This is an honor visited on alumni of the prestigious school by the Harvard Board of Overseers. His duties include an annual visit to the school where he will monitor classes, talk with students and faculty and report his observations to the board.
According to a spokesperson at the Dean's Office of Harvard Law School, Prior is the only such representative in the Virgin Islands and, perhaps, the Caribbean.
Prior is off-island and could not be reached for comment about his new honor.