Ex-Regent assistant dean loses law license after conviction

By Tim McGlone

The Virginian-Pilot

The Virginia State Bar has revoked the law license of a former Regent University law school assistant dean who was convicted of sexual abuse charges.

Stephen L. McPherson, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced May 22 in Chesapeake after pleading guilty earlier this year to two counts each of forcible sodomy and object sexual penetration involving the abuse of two girls between 2000 and 2002.

He’s also facing trial in May in Virginia Beach on sexual abuse charges stemming from four years, between 1996 and 2000, when he and his wife served as house parents supervising as many as eight girls at Hope Haven Children’s Home on North Landing Road. His wife, Melina Ann McPherson, 37, was also charged.

A 1991 Old Dominion University graduate, McPherson received his law degree and a master’s degree in business administration from Regent in 1996.