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Alumni in the News

George “Chuck” Patterson ’03 Featured

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Tangala Hollis, ’06 will be our convocation guest speaker on November 2, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Woodworth Chapel.

Attorney Stephanie Barnes Taylor, ’94 will be on campus on November 11, 2011 for a Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Society event.  (Please see the attachment)

 Gregory Johnson '08 has been selected as the third Grace Walker Phillips Youth Leadership Award Recipient by the Washington Inter-Alumni Council (WIAC) and the United Negro College Fund. Greg is the second alumnus of Tougaloo to receive the award. Alumna Chazeman Jackson '01 was the first award recipient in 2010. Greg will receive this honor during the WIAC's 29th Anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration held on January 16, 2012.  The award highlights Greg's significant contributions to Tougaloo College, the community and the National Alumni Council.

Gregory was the 2008 recipient of the UNCF Male Scholarship representing the TC Pre-Alumni Council.  He also graduated from George Washington School of Law in May 2011.

Marliane Woodfork ’09, Peace Corps-Guatemala 2010-2012 - Savvy Life Magazine

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Phelps Dunbar Senior Partner Reuben V. Anderson '64 - Presented With Mississippi Medal of Service

Phelps Dunbar Partner Reuben V. Anderson, http://www.phelpsdunbar.com/attorney-profile/profile/anderson-40.html, was recently presented with the Mississippi Medal of Service by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.  Mr. Anderson was one of 11 Mississippians who received this honor for his significant contributions to improve the local community and state. 

Mr. Anderson, a native of Jackson, grew up during segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, where he met prominent civil rights leaders and Freedom Riders who inspired him to pursue a career as a civil rights attorney.  He represented the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in litigation involving school desegregation, housing and employment discrimination, voting rights and other civil rights cases.  He began his judicial career after a series of appointments to Hinds County courts.  Gov. Cliff Finch appointed him to the Hinds County Court bench in 1975, and Gov. William Winter named him to the Hinds County Circuit Court six years later.  Mr. Anderson made history in 1985 when Gov. Bill Allain appointed him to the state Supreme Court, making him the first African American to serve in that position.  He served for six years before returning to private practice at Phelps Dunbar.  His other key positions have included Municipal Judge for the City of Jackson from 1976-77, partner with Anderson, Banks, Nichols & Stewart from 1968-77 and Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi School of Law in the Fall of 1995.

Mr. Anderson is a senior partner in the general litigation group in Phelps’ Jackson office, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation and regulatory and governmental matters.  He is among a select group of lawyers recognized in the category of Litigation: General Commercial, listed in a nationwide client survey published in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Anderson is a member of the Mississippi Bar (first African-American president, 1997-1998), American Bar Association, Hinds County Bar Association, Magnolia Bar Association, National Bar Association (Hall of Fame, 2009), U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Association, U.S. Supreme Court Bar Association, Mississippi Economic Council (State Chamber of Commerce) and 100 Black Men of Jackson.  He is the director of AT&T, The Kroger Company and MINACT Inc.  He is a trustee of the Ole Miss Alumni Association and Tougaloo College.  He is the namesake for Tougaloo College’s Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Society.  He was inducted to the University of Mississippi School of Law’s Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011 and the University of Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995.  He was named the University of Mississippi School of Law Alumnus of the Year in 2005, and he received the Mississippi Bar’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.

Phelps Dunbar is a regional firm of more than 270 attorneys - in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Tupelo, and Gulfport, Mississippi; Houston, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; and London, England - serving clients in the Gulf South as well as nationwide and abroad.

Alumni in the News provided by the Office of Alumni Affairs, Doris Bridgeman '69, Director

  The Fall-Winter 2011 Tougaloo Alumni Bulletin (TAB) is now available for download in PDF format.  Click here to download the Fall-Winter 2011 TAB..

Congratulations to the TCNAA 2011 Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees:
Shirley Carson Evans, CPA - Business
Minion K. C. Morrison, Ph.D. - Education
Herbert Lee, Jr., JD - Government and Law
Terralon Cannon Knight, MD - Medicine

  The 2010 Fall/Winter Tougaloo Alumni Bulletin (TAB) is now available for download if PDF format.  Click here to download the FALL_WINTER TAB.  Adobe Acrobat required, to get the latest version click the icon below.

Last Update:
January 9, 2012