Two New Attorneys Join Fund Staff: Amaker Returns from Military Duty

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September 12, 1962

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    PRESS RELEASE 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
TOCOLUMBUS CIRCLE + NEW YORK19,N.Y. © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel 

es 1% TWO NEW ATTORNEYS JOIN FUND STAFF; seg ae AMAKER RETURNS FROM MILITARY DUTY 
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NEW YORK - Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund, announced this week the addition of two new 

attorneys to the Fund staff. 

The new attorneys are Frank H. Heffron, a 1962 graduate 

of the Columbia Law School, and George Smith, a 1962 graduate 

of the Yale Law School. Norman Amaker, who joined the staff 

in 1961, has also returned from active duty with the U. S. Army 

Reserves. 

Mr. Greenberg said that the addition of the new 

attorneys expands the Fund legal staff to nine. The other 

members are Mrs, Constance Baker Motley, Associate Counsel 

James M. Nabrit, III, Derrick Bell, Jr., Michael Meltsner and 

Leroy D. Clark. 

Mr. Heffron, 25, is a native of Middletown, N. Y. and 

a graduate of Middlebury College. He earned Phi Beta Kappa 

honors at Middlebury and graduated class Valedictorian. 

Mr. Smith, 25, wes born in New Orleans, La. and is a 

graduate of Yale University. In 1958 he attended the University 

of Paris as a member of the Sweet Briar Junior Year in France 

Program. Mr. Smith, while at Yale Law School in 1961, joined 

a Freedom Ride to Montgomery, Ala. where he was arrested on 

May 25 at the Trailways Bus station lunch counter. His case 

is pending in Alabama state courts, and he is being defended 

by Jack Greenberg and other Fund attorneys. His sister, Inez 

Smith, also a 1962 graduate of the Yale Law School, worked in 

the Fund offices this summer as a research assistant. 

Mr. Amaker, 27, is a graduate of Amherst College and 

the Columbia Law School. He was called to active duty in 

Oct., 1961 with the 411th QM Co Petroleum Depot at Fort Lee, 

Va. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City 

of New York, 

~ SEP 1{9'99

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