Prince Chambliss

Prince Chambliss

44 North Second Street, Suite 502 Memphis, TN 38103

(901) 481-8700

(901) 481-8700

(901) 575-8705

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As a native of Birmingham, Alabama, Prince was recruited to live with a white family and complete his last two years of high school in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The program was established by the American Friends Service Committee, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Quaker organization intent upon resolving issues created by the longtime segregated separate educational system of the South.

After high school, Prince enrolled in Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. During the student activism movement and efforts for racial equality, Prince left college and was employed by Negro Action Group, an anti-poverty agency located on the Lower East Side of New York City. At the end of his year of employment, Prince returned to Birmingham and graduated from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He then earned his law degree at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thereafter, he clerked for a U. S. District Judge in the Northern District of Alabama in Birmingham. Following his clerkship, he became the first black lawyer to become a partner witht a majority law firm in Memphis. Volunteering for community service, Prince became the first black president of the Memphis Bar Association and served with the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners for 19 years.

In addition to pro bono volunteer legal work and mentoring for young people, Prince has served as a member of the adjunct faculty for the Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law at the University of Memphis. For fun, he plays chess, swims and plays tennis.