SHUFORD v. ALABAMA STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Civil Action No. 89-T-196-N.

978 F.Supp. 1008 (1997)

Humphrey L. SHUFORD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

September 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry G. Davis, Terry G. Davis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Mark Englehart, Anita L. Kelly, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, A. Wesley Pitters, Montgomery, AL, for Humphrey L. Shuford.

James U. Blacksher, Leslie Proll, Birmingham, AL, John C. Falkenberry, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuydendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, for Connie Johnson.

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Maureen Kane Berg, Andrew Clay Allen, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuydendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, for Karen Newton.

Terry G. Davis, Terry G. Davis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Anita L. Kelly, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Kenneth A. Brackins.

Thomas T. Gallion, III, Haskell, Slaughter, Young, Johnston & Gallion, Montgomery, AL, Beverly P. Baker, Richard H. Walston, Rebecca H. Hunt, Michael K.K. Choy, Haskell, Slaughter, Young, Johnston & Gallion, Birmingham, AL, for Myra P. Davis, Sheryl B. Threatt.

Terry G. Davis, Terry G. Davis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, AL, Mark Englehart, Anita L. Kelly, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, A. Wesley Pitters, Montgomery, AL, for Thad C. McClammy.

J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Tessa M. Thrasher, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, Renee Culverhouse, Office of Gen. Counsel, State of Ala., Dept. of Postsecondary Educ., Montgomery, AL, R. Scott Clark, Fitzgerald, Cooper & Clark, Birmingham, AL, for Alabama State Bd. of Educ., Fred Gainous.

J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for John M. Tyson, Jr., Stedman Shealy, Jr., Isabelle Thomasson, Spencer Bachus, Victor Poole, Evelyn S. Pratt.

J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Ethel Hall, Willie Paul.

Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, AL, Jeffrey A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Tessa M. Thrasher, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Larry McCoy, Bevill State Community College, Harold Wade.

Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Northwest Shoals Community College, Betty Fine Collins, Tazewell Shepherd, Dan Cleckler.

Jeffrey A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Tessa M. Thrasher, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Birmingham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Lawson State Community College, Perry W. Ward.

William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Northwest Alabama Community College, Secretary of State Bennett, Probate Judges of Alabama.

Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Tessa M. Thrasher, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Fob James, Bradley Byrne, G. J. Higginbotham, Stephanie Bell, David F. Byers, Jr., Sandra Ray, Mary Jane Caylor.

Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birningham, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Earl Roberson, Trenholm State Technical College.

James M. Parker, Jr., Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, Raymond P. Fitzgerald, Jr., Fitzgerald, Cooper & Clark, Birmingham, LA, for Jamie C. Moncrief, Thomas L. Davis.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

On March 23, 1995, Dr. Fred Gainous, an African-American who is Chancellor of Post-secondary Education, recommended to the Alabama State Board of Education that plaintiff-intervenor Thad McClammy, also an African-American, be terminated as president of Trenholm State Technical College. The State Board voted 8-1 to terminate Dr. McClammy. The only vote...

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