Attorney Profile
LEWIS, RONALD WAYNE, lawyer; b. Buffalo, Wyo., May 13, 1943; AB, Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, N.H., 1965; MAT in French, Harvard U., 1969; JD, U. Miss., Oxford, 1978. Bar: Miss. 1978, U.S. Dist. Ct. (no. dist.) Miss. 1978, U.S. Ct. Appeals (5th cir.) 1979, U.S. Dist. Ct. (so. dist.) Miss. 1985, U.S. Supreme Ct. 1990. U.S. Claims Court; Pvt. practice Oxford, 1978-81; partner. Hill, Lewis & Bell, Oxford, 1981-83, Hill & Lewis, Oxford, 1983-86, Holcomb, Dunbar, Connell, Chaffin & Willard, Oxford, 1986-88; pvt. practice Oxford, 1988—; CJA criminal def. tng. coord. No. Jud. Dist., Miss., 1991. Mem. Lafayette County Dem. Exec. Com., Oxford, 1985-90, chmn., 1987-91; bd. dirs. ACLU of Miss., 1989-90, Miss. Assn. for Children with Learning Disabilities, 1990-91. Bar Association of the 5th Federal Circuit, Miss. Bar, Lafayette County Bar Assn., Am. Inn of Ct. III (charter provisional). Civil litigation, general, Civil rights, Criminal. Office: 2621 W. Oxford Loop, Suite C, Oxford MS 38655
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Lewis has been a presenter at Continuing Legal Education seminars on police misconduct in Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. He also has made presentations on employment discrimination at an annual conference of the Mississippi Bar in Biloxi, Mississippi and before attorneys in Tupelo, Mississippi.
For several years Mr. Lewis was the training coordinator for attorneys representing indigent federal criminal defendants and the representative for the Northern Judicial District of Mississippi to the National Conference of Criminal Justice Act attorneys.
Mr. Lewis is a former member of the American Inns of Court, III and a member of the Mississippi and Lafayette County Bar Associations. He is also admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Mississippi, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Claims Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Mr. Lewis served as a member of the Lafayette County Democratic Executive Committee for many years, serving as chairman from 1987 to 1994. He is a past chairman of the Mississippi Sierra Club and served on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union and the Mississippi Association of Children with Learning Disabilities. He is also a member of the University of Mississippi Institutional Review Board (IRB) and has served as the auctioneer for the University of Mississippi Art Students Association Annual Art Auction for 14 years.
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