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Alabama State Bar Inducts Five Alumni into Hall of Fame

May 24, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Alabama State Bar recently inducted five alumni of the Law School in the Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame.

Inductees into the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame must have had a distinguished career in the law. This could be demonstrated through many different forms of achievement, leadership, service, mentorship, political courage, or professional success. Each inductee must have been deceased at least two years at the time of their selection.

The alumni inducted into the 2018 Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame are:

Jeremiah Clemens (1814 – 1865)

Carl Atwood Elliott (1913 – 1999)

Robert Austin Huffaker, Sr. (1944 – 2010)

Henry Upson Sims (1873 – 1961)

George Peach Taylor (1925 – 2008)


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