Fred D. Gray

3rd Congressional District

Fred D. Gray is the senior partner in the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson. He is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, lecturer, and author. Elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970, Gray was one of the first African Americans to serve in the State Legislature since Reconstruction. He is President of the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, a history museum.

In 2022, Pres. Joseph R. Biden awarded Gray the Presidential Medal of Freedom, calling him “one of the most important civil rights lawyers in our history.” Gray’s former clients include Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Congressman John Lewis, and the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

Gray joined the ADAH Board of Trustees in 2003. His other volunteer service includes the boards of the Alabama Exchange Bank, Faulkner University, and Case Western Reserve University, from which he earned his law degree in 1954.

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