Honoring Michael H. Reed.

WHEREAS, The Council of the City of Philadelphia is pleased and proud to honor Michael H. Reed on the occasion of his induction as the first African-American President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in its one hundred nine year history; and

WHEREAS, Michael H. Reed graduated from Temple University in 1969, Yale Law School in 1972, and he was admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972. Mr. Reed was elected a partner at Pepper Hamilton in 1980, and has concentrated his law practice in the field of bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Reed lectures nationally and regionally on bankruptcy matters and has been an adjunct professor at Temple Law School and Rutgers-Camden Law School; and

WHEREAS, As a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Mr. Reed served as chair of the House of Delegates and for three years he served as the Governor for the Philadelphia region on the Board of Governors. He is a past member of the Pennsylvania Judicial Inquiry and Review Board and a former chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and as first vice president of the Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia. Mr. Reed also co-founded and served as the first chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Minority Bar Committee and in 1988, he helped organize the first Minority Attorney Conference; and

WHEREAS, In addition to his professional accomplishments, Michael H. Reed actively participates in numerous civic groups. He currently serves on the boards of the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Committee of Seventy and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Public Interest Law Center; and

WHEREAS, Temple University’s College of Arts and Sciences honored Mr. Reed as Alumnus of the Year in 1995 and he received the Award of Excellence in 2003 from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund; now therefore

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That we hereby congratulate Michael H. Reed on his induction as the first African-American to lead the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That an Engrossed copy of this resolution be presented to Michael H. Reed as evidence of the sincere sentiments of this legislative body.

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