[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 17, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E28]
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                IN MEMORY OF THE LIFE OF MR. JOCK SMITH

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 17, 2012

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to 
the life of Mr. Jock Smith who passed away on January 8, 2012.
  Mr. Smith was born in Manhattan, New York, on June 10, 1948, and 
graduated from Tuskegee University and later the University of Notre 
Dame Law School. He returned to Alabama after receiving his law degree.
  Mr. Smith was an attorney and senior partner at the National Law Firm 
of Cochran, Cherry, Givens and Smith, P.C. He also worked as a sports 
agent for Cochran Sports Management, Assistant Attorney General of the 
State of Alabama and as a professor of political science at Tuskegee 
University.
  Mr. Smith was a member of Christian Life Church in Montgomery, 
Alabama. He was married to Yvette Smiley-Smith and had a daughter Janay 
Johnson.
  We honor the memory of Mr. Jock Smith today.