AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIVING LEGEND- L. Clifford Davis, Esq.
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- Published 07/14/2009
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FORT WORTH- L. Clifford Davis was born in 1925. He attended Philander Smith College and recieved his B.A. in 1945 and did graduate work in Economics at Atlanta University in 1946. In 1949, he attended Law School at Howard University, and recieved his J.D. Some of his group memberships include: the State Bar of Texas; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Court of Appeals Fifth and Eighth Circuits; Life Member, National Bar Association; Texas Bar Foundation Fellow; College of the State Bar of Texas; and Tarrant County and Ft. Worth/Tarrant County Black Bar Associations.
Davis had the opportunity to work with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall on the landmark case, “Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas.” He successfully litigated the case to integrate the Mansfield Independent School District in Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas and filed the federal lawsuit to integrate the Fort Worth Independent School District. He is best known for opening the first African-American law office in Texas, as well as organizing the Fort Worth Black Bar Association.
Some of his work biography includes: Senior District Judge, Tarrant County, 1994-2003; District Judge, 1989-1996; General Counsel, Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell, 1989-present; Judge, Criminal District No. 2, 1983-1988; “Living Legend in the Law” presented by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994.
Davis was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame, 2007.
We salute L. Clifford Davis, Esq. as this week’s Living Legend and invite you to send in who you think will make a good Living Legend and why they should be honored.
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said this on 24 Jul 2009 9:48:20 AM MST
As a person fortunate enough to be raised by parents who discouraged discrimination, who encouraged me to open myself to the richness that comes with knowing all people, and raised me with the belief that it is each person's inherent right, as Dr. King so ably put it, not to be "judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It is people like L. Clifford Davis that make it possible for me to share the way I was raised, with others who may never have changed, without the good work he did. My thanks to him and others like him for an ever improving and open world.
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