Admitted
1962, North Carolina; 1987, New York
Law School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., 1962; Columbia University School of Law, LL.M., 1963
Law School Graduation Year
1963
College
North Carolina Central University, A.B., 1958; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.A., History, 195
Memberships
North Carolina and American (Member, IRR Section) Bar Associations; North Carolina State Bar; American College of Trial Lawyers.
Biographical
Order of the Coif; Order of the Golden Fleece. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, University of Michigan. John Hay Whitney Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chappel Hill School of Law. Recipient: Courageous Advocacy Award form the American College of Trial Lawyers; Aetna Voice of Conscience Award; Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Adam Clayton Powell Award for Legislative and Legal Perfection. Author: Beyond Affirmative Action, Capital University Law 37.1 (1998): 1-2; Race and Equality: The Still Unfinished Business of the Warren Court, The Warren Court: A Retrospective , Ed. Bernard Schwartz, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996: 26-67; Afterward: Racial Equity and Full Citizenship, The Unfinished Agenda, African Americans and the Living Constitution, Eds. John Hope Franklin and Genna Rae McNeil, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995: 319-325; Black Americans and the Courts: Has the Clock Been Turned Back Permanently? The State of Black America, 1990, New York: Natural Urban League, Inc. 1990: 9-24; Adequate Education for All: A Right, An Achievable Goal, Harv. Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 22.1 (1987):55-74. Adjunct Professor: University of Virginia Law School, 1975-1978; University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1986; Columbia University Law School, 1984-1992; University of Michigan Law School, 1985-1992. Chancellor, North Carolina Central University, 1993-2001. Formerly with, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York, NY.