[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 119 (Thursday, September 19, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1626-E1627]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL L. BRADY

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                            HON. JOHN LEWIS

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 19, 2002

  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute a distinguished 
citizen, Paul L. Brady, of the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia 
as he celebrates a special day in his life, his 75th birthday.
  Paul L. Brady, a native of Flint, Michigan, received his early 
education in the Flint public schools. After graduating from high 
school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Following military service, he 
attended the University of Michigan and University of Kansas, majoring 
in psychology.
  Judge Brady's interest in the law was prompted by his personal 
involvement in what became the landmark case of Brown v. The Board of 
Education of Topeka, Kansas. He attended law school at Washburn 
University, Topeka, where he received his Juris Doctor Degree. He did 
further study at the Lawyer's Institute, Chicago, Illinois; the Center 
for Administrative Justice, George Washington University; and graduate 
work at Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC.
  His legal experience included twelve years of private practice in 
Chicago, Illinois, an adjudicator for the Social Security 
Administration, a Supervisory Trial Attorney for the Federal Power 
Commission (receiving this commission's highest award for efficiency in 
1971), and a Hearing Examiner with the Department of Health, Education 
and Welfare.

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  In 1972, he was appointed a Federal Administrative Law Judge and 
became the first African American to be so named. After serving 25 
years on the bench, Judge Brady retired. During the last 6 years of his 
tenure, he presided as Chief Judge of the Atlanta Regional office. In 
his honor, a Library-Conference Room has been designated the Brady 
Conference Room in the Sam Nunn Federal Office Building.
  Judge Brady is a member of the Judicial Council of the National Bar 
Association, the Federal Administrative Law Judges' Conference and the 
Federal Bar Association. He has also served as a faculty coordinator 
for a course on Administrative Law Procedure at the National Judicial 
College, Reno, Nevada. In addition to being a member of several State 
Bars, he is also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the 
United States.
  A life member of the NAACP, he has received numerous awards and 
honors for community involvement, the highlight of which was national 
recognition for organizing government lawyers in a Volunteer 
Neighborhood Legal Services Program in Washington, DC.
  In 1992, Flint Central High School selected Judge Brady as one of its 
initial honorees in the Alumni Hall of Fame. In 1997 he was inducted 
into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame. He is the author of 
``A Certain Blindness,'' a book that chronicles his family's history 
and is a prototype of other African-American families' quest for the 
``promise of America.''
  Judge Brady is the father of two children: Paul L. Brady, Jr., of Los 
Angeles, Dr. Laura Brady Sullivan and son-in-law Dr. Paul Sullivan, 
Southlake, Texas and grandson Paul Sullivan, Jr. He lives in Atlanta 
with his wife, Xernona, a television executive.

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