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of high character who are well-prepared for a civilian or military career. Most VMI graduates pursue civilian careers.
The case began on March 1, 1990, when the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against VMI in the U.S. District Court in Roanoke, charging that the Institute’s singlesex admissions policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The district court held a six-day trial that included testimony from six expert and eleven fact witnesses. On June 14, 1991, the court held that under the leading Fourteenth Amendment case, Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982), VMI’s admissions policy is constitutionally permissible.
Finding that single-sex education at the undergraduate level is “beneficial to both males and females,” the district court specifically affirmed the value of VMI’s education and concluded that the Institute’s educational methodology is beneficial to adolescent males but ill-suited to the developmental need of adolescent females.
The court said that the admissions policy was based upon “reasoned analysis,” not stereotyped thinking. It also found that the admission of women would substantially change the VMI program.
On Oct. 5, 1992, the three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit unanimously agreed that VMI’s mission of producing leaders in military and civilian life is appropriate and successful; that the institute’s method of
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