Billings, Warren M., 1940-....

Historian.

Warren M. Billings (1940- ), a scholar of seventeeth-century Virginia history and early American law, is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, the University of Pittsburgh, and Northern Illinois University. Among his many publications are Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (Louisiana State University Press, 2004) and The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605-1677 (Library of Virginia, 2007). Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) served as colonial governor of Virginia from 1642 to 1652 and from 1660 to 1677.