Background
Long, Thad Gladden was born on March 9, 1938 in Dothan, Alabama, United States. Son of Lindon Alexander and Della Gladys (Pilcher) Long.
Long, Thad Gladden was born on March 9, 1938 in Dothan, Alabama, United States. Son of Lindon Alexander and Della Gladys (Pilcher) Long.
AB, Columbia University, 1960; Juris Doctor, University of Virginia, 1963.
Associate attorney Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963—1970, partner, 1970—2011. Adjunct professor University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1988—2002, Samford University, Birmingham, Cumberland Law School, 1999—2002.
Chairman Columbia University Secondary Schools Committee Alabama Area, since 1975, president, chairman, Greater Birmingham Arts Alliance, 1977-1979. Trustee, president Birmingham Music Club, 2000-2003. Trustee Oscar Wells Trust for Museum Art, Birmingham, since 1983, Canterbury Methodist Foundation, 1993-2002, secretary, since 1993.
Chairman Entrepreneurship Institute Birmingham, 1989. Vice chairman, trustee Society of the Revolution Foundation, Alabama, 1994-2002. President Birmingham-Jefferson History Society, 1995-1997.
Trustee Birmingham Music Club Endowment, since 1995, Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum, 2004-2006. Member Birmingham Committee Foreign Relations. Fellow: Alabama Law Foundation.
Member: Society Revolution, United States Patent Bar, International Trademark Association, American Law Institute, Alabama Law Institute, Birmingham Legal Aid Society, Alabama Bar Association (chairman, founder business torts and antitrust section), Biotechnology Association of Alabama, Inc. (secretary 1998—2001), American Arbitration Association, St. Andrew's Society of Middle South, S.R., General Society S.R. (general solicitor 1994—2000), Society Colonial Wars (governor Alabama chapter, deputy Governor General of General Society), University Virginia Law Alumni (chairman Birmingham chapter 1984-1989), Order of the Coif, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Carolyn Frances Wilson, August 13, 1966. Children: Louisa Frances Stockman, Wilson Alexander.