Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....McPhaul, Thomas F. February 12, 2012
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Virginian-Pilot February 14, 2012
Thomas Francis McPhaul was born in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1931, and 
raised in the Brookland section of the City. He received a Bachelor of Science 
in Economics from Villanova University and went to work in the Central 
Intelligence Agency. He graduated from the Law School at Georgetown in 1958. 
After graduation, Tom McPhaul came to Norfolk and joined Alan J. Hofheimer and 
Robert C. Nusbaum as an associate. He later became a partner in the firm, 
handling real estate and general trial matters. Tom is survived by his wife, the 
former Mary Louise Dacier of Brooklyn, New York and five children and their 
spouses: Kathleen Marie McPhaul and Charles Bragdon, Kirby McPhaul Johnson and 
Edmond Hough Johnson III, Anne Dacier McGeorge and Gil McGeorge, Thomas 
Fitzwilliam McPhaul and Angela McPhaul, Amy Martel Johnston and Trey Johnston. 
He is also survived by his sister, Joan Barnes, and her husband Everett and 
their five children. He was especially fond of his nine grandchildren: Hough and 
Allie Johnson, Wes McGeorge and Molly Poullath, Nick and Nell Bragdon, Doug and 
Annie McPhaul and Bryn Johnston. He is also survived by his brother-in-law, 
William C. Dacier, and his wife, Marion, and his sister-in-law, Regina Dacier, 
and a special cousin, Ruth Mulroy, and husband, Kevin. With four daughters in 
the family, Tom naturally favored womens’ rights. He was proud that Hofheimer, 
Nusbaum, McPhaul and Samuels was the first firm to maintain successfully a 
defense under the Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act on behalf of an elderly 
widow who had been improperly sued. Under the statute, the action against her 
was dismissed in the Virginia Supreme Court. Tom was a Commissioner in Chancery 
for the Circuit Courts of the cities of Norfolk and Chesapeake and has been an 
officer and director of the Boards of DePaul Hospital, and Saint Mary’s Home for 
Disabled Children, serving as the chairman of the lay boards of those two 
institutions. He is a past President of the Norfolk Torch Club, former Chairman 
of the City of Norfolk Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board, and a Fellow 
of the Virginia Law Foundation and former President of the Ryan Club. He also 
served on the Boards of the Catholic High School Foundation, the Virginia State 
Bar Senior Law Section and was a member of the Norfolk Portsmouth Bar 
Association. Tom was an early president for the Tidewater Legal Aid Society, 
offering free legal aid for indigent clients. He received the Eggleston I'Anson 
Professionalism Award, the highest honor given by the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar 
Association and is a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. He practiced law for 
over 50 years and retired 3 years ago. The funeral mass will be conducted by 
Father Dan Klem at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Thursday, February 16th, at 
5:30 P.M. with visitation in the Commons area of the church from 4 to 5:15 p.m. 
A private burial in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery will be at a later date. Online 
condolences can be sent to hdoliver.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions may 
be made to Sacred Heart Church Building Fund, St. Mary’s Home for Disabled 
Children or Tidewater Literary Council.

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