An accomplished legal professional with more than four decades of experience, James E. Dow, Jr., is based in NJ and specializes in personal injury, real estate, workers' compensation, and estate law, and recipient of the Justice Thurgood Marshall Award by the Bergen County NAACP, and a former member of the American Bar Association (ABA).
The ABA will continue its long tradition of celebrating the contributions of Thurgood Marshall to the legal community during its annual awards dinner in August honoring the former Supreme Court justice this August. The organization has chosen U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) as the recipient of this year’s Thurgood Marshall Award in recognition of his long-standing leadership in the civil rights movement.
Lewis was one of the 13 Freedom Riders who in 1960 challenged unconstitutional laws prohibiting black and white persons from sitting next to one another on public transportation. He was also one of the organizers of the 1964 civil rights march in Washington. In his comments, ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice chair Wilson Adam Schooley lauded Lewis as an indelible figure in U.S. civil rights history and a worthy recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award.
