About
Lawyer Michael G. Floyd, born on October 17, 1955, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the youngest of eleven children. During his time at Roxborough High School, he changed into actively concerned as the President of the Black Student Union and a member of the chess membership. His athletic excellence in soccer and tune earned him a scholarship to Le Moyne-Owen College in Memphis.
He later transferred to Tennessee State University, where he have become deeply engaged in civil rights activism, extensively participating in demonstrations and the landmark case Garner v. Tennessee, which turned into heard by way of the U.S. Supreme Court. He become additionally a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and graduated in 1978 with a B.S. in History and a minor in Sociology.
Lawyer Floyd earned his Juris Doctorate from North Carolina Central University Law School in 1982. He is admitted to more than one bars, inclusive of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
With sizeable enjoy in death penalty, clinical malpractice, civil rights, police brutality, and employment discrimination instances, Lawyer Floyd has served in numerous judicial capacities, such as as an Arbitration Judge and Special Judge for Memphis City Court. He has additionally held leadership roles within the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Tennessee. Currently, he practices privately and serves as outdoor litigation counsel for the Memphis Shelby County Education Association.
Lawyer Floyd is married to June Alice Floyd, a Shelby County educator. He is a devoted member of his church and is worried in several groups, including the Memphis Bar Association, Memphis NAACP, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. He remains devoted to provider with a imaginative and prescient for a higher Memphis and Shelby County.
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