Roscoe Howard: I Am Barnes & Thornburg

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.

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