June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Laughlin McDonaldLaughlin McDonald snagged his first job out of law school at a resort on Hilton Head Island, where the two previous summers he'd been hired to sing ballads at the resort's bar.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Sonny MorrisLooking through enormous windows from the office of Morris, Manning & Martin, one of the firm's deals is hard to miss: Tower Place, a 35-story multi-use development in Buckhead.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Oscar N. PersonsBorn to a schoolteacher and a Baptist minister who moved around the rural South to preach, Oscar N. Persons had a plan. Inspired at age 10 by a chemistry set, he'd go to Georgia Tech, become a chemist, run a company.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Leah Ward SearsIt's no longer remarkable for a woman or an African-American—or someone who's both—to hold a powerful position. Leah Ward Sears wants people to realize how abnormal, and how difficult, it was not that long ago. And it's not all that easy now.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Marvin ShoobNever has senior U.S. District Judge Marvin H. Shoob made more clear his view of his job than during a contentious hearing in the case of an Atlanta banker accused of fraud for funneling money to arm Iraq.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Larry ThompsonGrowing up in Hannibal, Missouri, the son of a railroad laborer and a cook, neither high school graduates, Larry D. Thompson is still amazed at where life has led him.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Chilton Davis VarnerGrowing up in the 1940s and '50s in Opelika, Alabama, her father a farmer, her mother a teacher, Chilton Davis Varner assumed she'd help build her husband's career and raise a family.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Horace T. WardWhen Atlanta lawyer Austen T. Walden came to LaGrange to speak in 1945, a high school senior named Horace T. Ward was in the audience. The teenager had never heard of an African-American lawyer.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Jim ButlerJim Butler had been in business as a solo practitioner for a single day in 1979 when he took a phone call from Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley Walraven, whose campaign he'd helped run three years earlier. Walraven told Butler that a woman whose brother had been hurt badly in a car wreck had been trying to reach him.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Lifetime Achievers: Miles AlexanderWhen Miles Alexander came to work at Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey & Regenstein in 1958 after a teaching stint at Harvard Law School, he joined Atlanta's largest firm. It had 14 lawyers.
By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report
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