Background
II, Leonard Adam Blackwell was born on October 23, 1942 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States. Son of Leonard Adam and Myrtis (Durr) B.
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Leonard Adam Blackwell II
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Associate of Arts, Perkinston Junior College, 1961; Bachelor, U. Mississippi, 1963; Juris Doctor, U. Mississippi, 1966.
Career
Associate, Estes & Alexander, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1966; partner, Estes & Alexander, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1967-1978; private practice law, Gulfport, 1978-1980; partner, Blackwell & Galloway, Gulfport, 1980-1982; partner, Blackwell, Owen & Galloway, Gulfport, 1982-1983; partner, Blackwell & White, Gulfport, since 1983. Lecturer U. Mississippi School Law, 1980-1981. Board directors South Mississippi Legal Superior vena cava syndrome Corporation, Biloxi, Sand Hill Hospital, Gulfport.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Common Cause, Mississippi Council on Alcoholism. Chairman Harrison County March of Dimes. Member Democratic Party, Mississippi, since 1966.
Lieutenant United States Navy, 1967-1972. Member American Bar Association (national young lawyers section 1974, clerk assembly speaker house ofdels. 1974-1976, president Mississippi state young lawyers section 1978), Mississippi State Bar (chairman lawyers and judges committee 1987-1988, marine resources com.1988, president since 1990), Harrison County Bar Association (president 1984), Mississippi State Bar Foundation (trustee 1978-1980), Federal Bar Association, Mississippi Trial LawyersAssn.
(board directors 1978, co-editor Voir Dire magazine 1981), American Board TrialAdvocacy, Gulfport Chamber of Commerce (board directors since 1988), Phi Delta Theta.
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Married Mary Eloise Ladner, June 27,1964. Children: Daisy Bowles, Caroline Harper.
