An Invitation: Fred Gray Dinner and Symposium
Fred Gray: A Change Agent for Civil Rights
February 9–Dinner, 7 p.m., Embassy Suites Hotel, Montgomery
February 10–Symposium, 8 a.m., Faulkner University, Jones School of Law, Montgomery
Keynote Speaker
Morris Dees, co-founder and chief trial counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery
Additional Speakers
Professor Kathleen Cleaver, senior lecturer, Emory Law School, Atlanta
Judge Myron Thompson, United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama, Montgomery
CLE credit
This program has been approved by the Alabama MCLE Commission for three hours of CLE credit in Alabama. For credit outside of Alabama, contact your MCLE regulatory body.
Cancellations/Refunds
Your prepaid registration fee will be refunded, upon request, up to 48 hours before the beginning of the seminar
About Fred Gray
Fred D. Gray, a native of Montgomery, lives in Tuskegee and is in the general practice of law specializing in civil rights litigation. He was educated at the Nashville Christian Institute, Alabama State University and Case Western Reserve University. He is the senior partner in the firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray, Gray & Nathanson PC, with offices in Montgomery and Tuskegee.
His legal career spans more than 55 years. Two of his most memorable cases are City of Montgomery v. Rosa Parks and State of Alabama v. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many others may be found in most constitutional law textbooks including, but not limited to: Aurelia A. Browder, et al v. W.A. Gayle, et al (integrated the buses in the City of Montgomery); Gomillion v. Lightfoot, (laid the foundation for the concept of "one man, one vote"); NAACP v. Alabama, ex rel. John Patterson, Attorney General; Dixon, et al v. The Alabama State Board of Education; Williams v. Wallace (Court ordered State of Alabama to protect marchers from Selma to Montgomery after being beaten on Bloody Sunday); William P. Mitchell, et al v. Edgar Johnson, et al (one of the first civil actions brought to remedy systematic exclusion of blacks from jury service); Lee v. Macon County Board of Education (integrated all state institutions of higher learning under the Alabama State Board of Education, and 104 of the then 121 elementary and secondary schools systems in the state); Malone v. University of Alabama; and Franklin v. Auburn University. He was counsel in preserving and protecting the rights of persons involved in the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1972 (Pollard, et al v. United States of America).
Mr. Gray was one of the first African-Americans to serve in the Alabama Legislature since reconstruction and the first elected president of the Alabama State Bar (2002-2003). Gray also served as the 43rd president of the National Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, American College of Trial Lawyers and International Society of Barristers. He served on many court-appointed committees, including the Merit Selection of Appellate Judges Committee.
