Jackson Center Discussion On Wednesday To Probe Brown II Ruling
By The Post-Journal Staff
DANIEL MEADOR |
Daniel J. Meador, Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in 1954 and 1955 will complete an historic team to speak at Lenna Hall in Chautauqua Institution on Wednesday.
Meador will be part of the Robert H. Jackson Center’s study of the court’s second unanimous decision regarding public school desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education II, and what some say is among the most disputed Supreme Court language, that school desegregation be ended with ‘‘all deliberate speed.’’
‘‘As we reflect on the court’s actions in the matter of desegregation and Brown v. Board II, we can say the wheels of Justice certainly turned cautiously as public emotions and convictions were intense on all sides of the issue,’’ said Greg Peterson, Jackson Center president. ‘‘We are grateful to Professor Meador for helping us to examine more fully the court’s decision as he joins our roundtable discussion.’’
Meador is a native of Alabama. He attended The Citadel and received the B.S. degree from Auburn University, J.D. from the University of Alabama, and LL.M. from Harvard University. Meador is a veteran of the Korean War and served in Korea as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the Army.
In 1954-55 he was Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. After practicing law in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1957 he joined the law faculty at the University of Virginia. He was the founding director of the Graduate Program for Judges at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as its director for 15 years. He is James Monroe Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
Meador also served as dean of the University of Alabama Law School for four years, was chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Journal of Legal Education, and member of the board of directors of the American Society for Legal History.
At the University of Virginia, he received the Thomas Jefferson Award, Raven Award, and Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.
He received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Center for State Courts, the American College of Trial Lawyers Litigation Award, and the Justice Award from the American Judicature Society.
He has held membership on the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute and the American Judicature Society and served as chairman of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements. He was an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justicefrom 1977 to 1979, heading a newly created Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, the office that developed the bill to create the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court. He also served as executive director of the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals.
Meador was a Fulbright Lecturer in England in 1965 and 1966, and an IREX Fellow in the German Democratic Republic in 1983.
He served as Visiting Professor of Law in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1984. He is the author or coauthor of nine books on law related subjects and has also published two novels.
The May 18 roundtable discussion will begin at 10:30 a.m., at Lenna Hall, Chautauqua Institution.
The public is welcome and encouraged to attend the educational event which is offered free of charge. For more information, call the Jackson Center at 483-6646.