Great Lives in the Law

October 22, 2002

A renowned civil rights activist, Julius Chambers has argued and won numerous cases involving education, employment and civil rights of African-Americans, including the landmark Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971, which led to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. Formerly the director-counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Education Fund, Chambers recently concluded an eight-year term as chancellor of his undergraduate alma mater, North Carolina Central University. He has since returned to practice at the law firm he founded in Charlotte in 1964, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist delivered the inaugural lecture in the Great Lives the the Law series, televised live across the country on C-SPAN.