Tom Bondurant (2018) - Richmond Athletics Hall of Fame

Tom Bondurant

Induction:
2018
Class:
1971

Tom Bondurant rose to the rank of captain on the baseball field during his playing days, and later rose to the position of judge in the court room.

Statistically, he excelled in his junior year for the Spiders, batting .367, the top mark in the Southern Conference. For his career, he was a two-time All-Southern Conference and All-Big Five selection. A first baseman, Bondurant was a career .300 hitter who batted cleanup his junior and senior seasons. By all accounts, his crowning achievement was being named Captain as a senior for Hall of Fame Coach Mac Pitt's last team in 1971, a squad that finished with a winning record. In 1974, Tom served as an assistant on Hall of Fame coach Chuck Boone's winningest Spider team.

Once his athletic career was behind him, Bondurant focused on, and succeeded at, his chosen profession of law, graduating from the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law in 1974. He went on to be a lawyer, teacher – including at the UR Law School – and judge. He is a past President of the Henrico County Bar Association and a member of Lawyers Helping Lawyers and Chairman on the Virginia State Bar Substance Abuse Committee.