Career
During that time, he was considered an activist for the rights of poor people and minorities. He was the founding executive director of Legal Service of Greater Miami, a program that grew out of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 War on Poverty. He served as Executive Director from 1966 to 1977.
After his retirement as a General Master for the Florida Court System in 1987, he served as a full-time volunteer for the Legal Aid Society of Greater Miami, earning him the John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award for Pro Bono Service by the American Bar Association in 1995.
As Executive Director for Legal Services of Greater Miami, led several United States. Supreme Court victories, including Agrersinger versus Hamlin and Fuentes versus
Shevin in 1972. The cases allowed for people to have counsel and hearings in specific situations.
He established legal precedence in the case regarding emergency appeals from the State to the Federal courts. Dixon was named in the amicus brief with the American Civil Liberties Union to the Florida Supreme Court urging reversal for Gideon versus
Wainwright, the case that supported the sixth amendment of the constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys.