[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16906-16907]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              RETIREMENT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOHN CRUMP

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the members of the National 
Bar Association being in the Eighty-third meeting of this Association 
in the City of Houston, County of Harris, State of Texas to affirm and 
declare the position of said Association in Resolution as follows:
  In May of the Year 1978, John Crump, being an attorney licensed by 
the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, acting in direction of the 
then President of the National Bar, Mark T. McDonald, of MacDonald and 
McDonald in Houston, Harris County Texas, did remove himself from said 
city to assume the interim position of the Executive Director of the 
National Bar Association in the District of Columbia for the period of 
three months through the Sixty-third Annual Meeting of said 
Association, and
  Since that time in 1978, John Crump, Esquire has toiled diligently to 
assure that the mission of the Association, as stated in its 
Constitution and Bylaws, its operating procedures, manuals, subdivision 
and committee mandates have been addressed and fulfilled to the best of 
the collective abilities of all parties concerned, and
  John Crump was able to apply and obtain grants and contractual 
financing from various funding sources that would allow the Association 
to provide services to its membership and the clients that they serve 
consistent with the rules of professional ethics and the obligations 
and responsibilities of said grants and contracts, the procurement of 
which led to the opening of the first funded office of the Association, 
and the stabilization of the Association after the withdrawal of 
funding by a retaliatory administration, and
  John Crump has been the single continuing staff person throughout 
each of these thirty years developing the NBA Continuing legal 
Education Curriculum and coordination its compliance with all states 
requesting certification of the membership for each meeting, and
  John Crump has managed the office of the Association through each of 
its fiscal years,

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continuing to identify contractual and opportunities, with such 
instinctive and trained monitoring of compliance with the requirements, 
that he has been successful in the evaluation of thirty-one audits by 
external parties reviewing each award, and
  John Crump has implemented the programmatic activities of thirty-one 
different Association Boards of Governors and the thirty-one 
presidents, each presiding over an Association year with varied themes, 
management styles, perspectives and appointees, and
  John Crump, in conjunction with the policy-making Board of Governors, 
has worked to develop many aspects of the Association operations, 
related entities and programs including the creation of the National 
Bar Investment Corporation that facilitated the acquisition of the NBA 
Office building, the National Bar Institute, the affiliated fundraising 
entity of the Association, and the NBA Crump Law Camp, the high school 
nurturing program that provides legal orientation to students from 
across the country to inspire their interest in the study of the law, 
and
  During his tenure with and in development of the requisite skills of 
negotiating for and best practices of this Association, John Crump 
provided leadership for such distinguished national organizations as 
the National Coalition of Black Meeting Planners and the Texas Southern 
National Alumni Association, representing the memberships of both in 
several leadership capacities prior to assuming the helms, and
  In his position of Executive Director, John Crump has been designated 
by the presiding officers as the national office spokesperson in 
significant and pressing legal matters, matters of civil rights, 
compilation of documents representing the Association, such as briefs, 
public positions, statements, news releases, and the like, as well as 
many, many appearances before congressional bodies, conferences, formal 
and informal gatherings, and
  In pursuit of excellence in service to the Association and the 
untiring dedication to its objectives, John Crump has never limited his 
hours of work, sacrificed attainment of personal and financial goals 
and made himself available to the Association, its membership and 
extended family in countless endeavors, trying situations and 
challenging experiences,
  The members of the National Bar Association saluted its Executive 
Director John Crump in formal action during the Plenary Session of its 
Eighty-third Annual Meeting and during additional activities and 
programs of this Meeting and on this date do hereby caused to be 
approved this Resolution by its President, congratulating and thanking 
him for his tireless efforts with and for this Association and affixing 
the Seal of the Association, as attested by its Secretary.
  John Crump toiled for thirty years in helping to lead this major 
civil rights legal organization--the National Bar Association. My 
constituents offer to John Crump our greatest gratitude for his work 
and the work of the NBA in making the law work for all Americans, 
including those who have suffered. Thank you, John!

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