I AM...
- The great-grandson of Virginia slaves
- The grandson of a Baptist minister who rebuilt Southern African American Baptist Churches destroyed during the Civil War
- The son of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) professors, one with a Cornell Biology Ph.D. and the other with a Virginia Math Education Ed.D.
- Someone who was raised on the south side of Virginia, and attended segregated schools until seventh grade
- A graduate of Indiana’s Culver Military Academy, enrolling just after it integrated. I was the school’s Man of the Year.
- Upon graduating from Brown, Virginia Law, and clerking, the first Black attorney at one Washington, D.C., national firm
- A former Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., the Eastern District of Virginia and served on two independent counsels
- The father of two outstanding young men and the father-in-law of a delightful, young Siberian woman
- A former member of the NCAA Division I Infractions Committee and the U. S./Canada Fulbright Committee Board of Directors
- A person who was, while teaching law at the University of Kansas, presidentially appointed to be the United States Attorney for Washington
This profile appeared in the February 2021 edition of I Am Barnes & Thornburg.
