Native New Yorker.
Graduated from Hampton University 1973 (then Hampton Inst.) 
Rutgers-Camden Law School 1976.
Varied legal career beginning as an assistant public defender, in Philadelphia, PA

• 1st African American United States Atty. for DE.
• 1st African American Federal Judge, DE. Divorced. Beautiful son and daughter (son gone much too soon)!

My first event was chaired by Jim Gilliam Jr. The event was called a Celebration Dinner.  The following year the event was chaired by Joshua W. Martin III.
I was shotgun for that Celebration Dinner.
I suggested we rename the event Ebony Tie Affair and introduce a rising chair protocol.