Woodward, Dead At 88, Was Acclaimed Lawyer
Times Picayune 11-22-1996

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M. Truman Woodward Jr., considered by many "the dean of the Louisiana bar,"
died Thursday of complications from a stroke at Memorial Medical Center. He
was 88.

A lifelong resident of New Orleans, Mr. Woodward earned his law degree from
Tulane University in 1927. Too young at 19 for admission to the bar, he did
postgraduate studies at the University of Michigan School of Law before going
to work as a law clerk at the Milling law firm. He remained there, ultimately
becoming a partner, until his retirement in 1993.

In 1953, after seven years of work on weekends and early in the morning, he
published "Woodward's Notarial Manual," an effort to compile and simplify
Louisiana legal forms and explain the law applicable to each. He later
produced three supplements to the 1,000-page volume, which became a reference
for generations of lawyers.

Mr. Woodward was at various times a governor of the American Bar Association,
president of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Louisiana Law
Institute, chairman of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and vice president of the
New Orleans Bar Association.

He also was a member of the Executive Council of the National Conference of
Bar Presidents, the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, the American
Judicature Society, the American Law Institute and the Louisiana Judicial
Council, and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American
Bar Foundation and the American College of Probate Counsel.

Besides his legal activities, he was president of the Garden District
Association, president of the Sons of the Revolution in Louisiana, governor of
the Society of Colonial Wars in Louisiana, a trustee of Trinity Episcopal
School, a member of the Management Committee of the New Orleans Chamber of
Commerce and regional head of the Military and Hospitalier Order of St.
Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Mr. Woodward was honored as a distinguished graduate by the Tulane University
School of Law and as a distinguished lawyer by the Louisiana State Bar
Association.

Survivors include four daughters, Carol W. Baker of Shalimar, Fla., Elizabeth
W. Ryan, Lucie W. Cavaroc and Margaret E. Woodward; a son, Madison T. Woodward
III of Houston; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329
Jackson Ave. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Garden of
Memories. Bultman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.