Obituaries
Donald Weadon, attorney
May 1, 2008

Donald A. Weadon Jr. died March March 23, 2008. He was 63.

Mr. Weadon was born in Brisbane, Australia, and grew up in Weston. He attended Hurlburt School and then graduated from the Loomis School in Windsor.

He received a degree in government in 1968 from Cornell University, where he sang in the Cornell Glee Club, managed the club’s year-long world tour, and was the president of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He also served on the Cornell University Trustee Council.

Mr. Weadon received a degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1975 and a master’s degree from the Harvard Business School Adjunct Program at the Iran Centre for Management Studies in Tehran in 1976.

In 1984, he opened a firm, Weadon and Associates, in Washington, although he occasionally joined larger firms interested in expanding their international trade portfolio. He was a consultant to international technology companies and the Commerce and Defense departments.

He opened law offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Beijing and Hanoi, and was the first attorney granted clearance by the U.S. Treasury Department to practice law in Vietnam. He also set up a foundation to support Vietnamese orphans.

Mr. Weadon was an adjunct professor of foreign trade law at George Mason University and Golden Gate University Law School and lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on international high-tech ventures.

He also contributed articles to scholarly journals, newspapers and blogs, often on issues involving Iran and the Middle East.

Survivors include his wife of 13 years, Suzanne Hayden Cameron Weadon of Washington, D.C., and his sister, Priscilla S. Weadon, a marketing consultant in Westport.

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