Overview

Stanley E. Foster has been with Hollowell Foster & Herring PC since 1985 and became a partner with the firm in 1988. Mr. Foster specializes in general corporate and business law. His practice focuses principally in public finance law as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel or insurer's counsel.

Education

1. Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Brown University (1975)
2. Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Law (1978)

Certificate

1. State Bar of Georgia
2. American Bar Association
3. National Association of Bond Lawyers
4. Gate City Bar Association

Overview

Jolanda Herring is The Project Attorney for the EEO Services Section. She is a principal partner in the firm, and has amassed an impressive portfolio of favorable rulings & successful cases...

Education

1. B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Barry University, Miami, Florida (2002)
2. Judicial Intern, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2003)
3. Juris Doctor, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia (2004)
4. Judicial Intern, Northern District Court of Georgia (2004)

Certificate

1. Of Counsel, Hollowell, Foster & Gepp, PC
2. Senior Associate Attorney, Hollowell, Foster & Gepp, PC
3. Associate Trial Attorney, Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson Patterson, LLP

Overview

Founder, the late Donald Lee Hollowell, was one of the most renowned civil rights attorneys in the United States. He served as counsel to such prominent figures as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Dr. Hamilton Holmes, and the Honorable Horace T. Ward.

Early Life and Education

Donald Hollowell was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and earned a high school diploma while serving six years in the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment (the original Buffalo Soldier regiment). Although in Kansas, Hollowell did not encounter the racist Jim Crow laws of the South, he faced blatant racism and discrimination while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Hollowell recounted that "army officials relegated him to eating in the kitchen, sleeping in quarters adjacent to prisoners, and patronizing Jim Crow canteens." Hollowell's experiences with racial segregation and discrimination and his involvement with the Southern Negro Youth Congress after the war inspired him to pursue the study of law to help in the fight for social justice.

Legal Career

In 1952, Hollowell set up a law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, where he began to play a major role in the burgeoning civil rights struggle.

Hollowell became well known for fighting racial segregation in the State of Georgia. Hollowell sued the University of Georgia, charging the institution with racist admission policies. The suit ended in 1961 with a federal court order demanding the admission of two African American students, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton E. Holmes.

In 1960, Hollowell and co-counsel Horace Ward won a victory in the Georgia Court of Appeals which secured the release of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Georgia State Prison. In another case, Hollowell and members of his firm prevented the electrocution of a 15-year-old black youth from Monticello, Georgia, five days before the scheduled execution. Hollowell and civil rights champion C. B. King also defended Dr. King and hundreds of civil rights activists in the historic civil rights campaign in Albany, Georgia known as the Albany Movement.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Hollowell as regional director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a government agency that monitors workplace discrimination. This appointment made Hollowell the first black regional director of a major federal agency.[1] Hollowell remained with the EEOC for nearly 20 years. Hollowell also served as president of the Voter Education Project, where he helped increase the number of African-American voters from 3 million to 5.5 million.

In 2002, the University of Georgia awarded Hollowell its honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

Hollowell died on December 27, 2004 of heart failure. He was 87 years old.

To honor him, the City of Atlanta renamed Bankhead Highway (U.S. 78) in his honor; Emory University named a professorship in his honor, as well.

Personal

Hollowell was a dedicated member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. In 1968, he received the Fraternity's highest honor, the Laurel Wreath Award, for his work in civil rights.

Hollowell was married to Louise T. Hollowell, a magna cum laude graduate of Morris Brown College and a distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus) at Morris Brown. In 1997, Louise Hollowell and Martin Lehfeldt authored a book titled The Sacred Call: A Tribute to Donald L. Hollowell—Civil Rights Champion, which chronicles Hollowell's service and achievements. The book also tells the love story of Donald and Louise Hollowell, who celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary in 2004.

Education

1. Magna cum laude from Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee (1947)
2. Law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law (1951)

Certificate

1. Regional director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (1966)
2. Kappa Alpha Psi Laurel Wreath Award (1968)