LOS
ANGELES (December 20, 2013) – Charles R. Drew University of Medicine
and Science (CDU) welcomed its newest arrival, Attorney John W. Patton,
Jr., as General Counsel. Atty. Patton, also known as Elder Patton
because of his longstanding affiliation with West Angeles Church of God
in Christ (Los Angeles), joined CDU in November and was feted at a
reception in December. Guests included Atty. Patton’s wife, entrepreneur
Dawn Harris-Patton; famed civil rights attorney Connie Rice; Attorney
Uleses C. Henderson, General Counsel of the Churches of God in Christ
Worldwide; Judge Mablean Ephraim; and other members of the CDU
community. Atty. Patton accepted his warm welcome with brief thanks and
remarks.
Atty. Patton
has nearly thirty-five years of experience in all aspects of civil
litigation, with jury and court trials and appellate work in both state
and federal courts throughout California. Atty. Patton’s practice has
focused on employment disputes, commercial business litigation, real
estate disputes, and personal injury. He has represented and counseled
Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized and small businesses and individuals.
He is a 1975 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, and a 1979
graduate of Howard University School of Law, where he graduated magna
cum laude and first in his class.
In 1997, Atty.
Patton was elected as the first African American president of the
Beverly Hills Bar Association in Beverly Hills, California. He is a
former member of the State Bar of California Commission of Judicial
Nominees Evaluation, the Business Law Section, and the Committee on
Administration of Justice; a former member of the American Bar
Association Metropolitan Bar Caucus; and a former member of the National
Conference of Bar Presidents.
Atty. Patton is
the past Chair and a former member of the Board of Directors of the
Conference of California Bar Associations (CCBA), a powerful voice of
the lawyers of California. Among other activities and services to
California lawyers and the public, CCBA provides a forum and voice for
all local, minority, statewide and specialty bar associations in
California to consider, debate and propose, and implement changes in
California laws.
ABOUT CDU
CDU
is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, minority-serving medical and
health sciences institution. Located in the Watts-Willowbrook area of
South Los Angeles, CDU has graduated more than 550 medical doctors,
2,500 post-graduate physicians, more than 2,000 physician assistants and
hundreds of other health professionals. CDU has earned designation as a
minority-serving institution by the U.S. Office for Civil Rights, and
its College of Medicine is recognized by the Department of Education as a
Historically Black Graduate Institution. The University is also a
charter member of the Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools. CDU
is recognized as a leader in translational and health inequities
research, specifically with respect to heart disease, diabetes, cancer,
mental health, and HIV/AIDS. The CDU/UCLA medical program was named the
“best performer” in the University of California System with respect to
producing outstanding underrepresented minority physicians by the
Greenlining Institute. For more information, visit http://www.cdrewu.edu/.
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