D'Army Bailey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

D'Army Bailey

American judge and actor

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1941

Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 12-Jul-2015

Profession: judge, actor, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About D'Army Bailey

  • D'Army Bailey (November 29, 1941 – July 12, 2015) was an African-American lawyer, circuit court judge, civil rights activist, author, and film actor.
  • Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city councilman in Berkeley, California, from 1971-73. Bailey was the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum which opened in 1991 at Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, where Dr.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • was slain in 1968.
  • His 1993 book, Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr.
  • Martin Luther King’s Final Journey, focused on that period.
  • A second book, The Education of a Black Radical, published in October 2009 by LSU Press, recalls Bailey's own history in the civil rights movement.
  • His interest in civil liberties issues also led Bailey to film, where he portrayed a judge in the 1999 film The People vs.
  • Larry Flynt (1996).He had roles in seven other movies, including portrayals ranging from a minister to a street-hustling pool player.
  • Bailey received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1967.
  • He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010.
  • As a lawyer, he practiced for 16 years in Memphis before being elected as a judge in the Circuit Court of Tennessee's Thirtieth Judicial District in 1990.
  • He presided over a nationally recognized trial lasting four months in 1999 in which three major tobacco firms were acquitted of wrongdoing in contributing to the deaths of smokers.
  • He was twice nominated to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court.In September 2009, Bailey retired from the bench and became a member of Wilkes & McHugh, PA, a national civil litigation law firm, founded in 1985 by Jim Wilkes and Tim McHugh.
  • In 2014, he was again elected to the bench and returned to office September 1, 2014.
  • Bailey lectured at law schools, including Harvard, Loyola in California, Washington and Lee, Washington University in St.
  • Louis, and Notre Dame University.
  • He published legal articles at the law schools at Harvard University, the University of Toledo, Washington and Lee, and Howard University.
  • Bailey has served on the executive committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference.

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