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| Name | Charles Price |
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| Info | Judge Charles Price graduated from Carver High School in Montgomery, Alabama. He served six years in the United States Army: three years with the Green Beret (Special Forces) unit and three years with the 82nd Airborne Division. After his discharge, still feeling a sense of duty to and a strong sense of honor and pride in his country, he joined the United States Army Reserves from which he retired as Lt. Colonel, Judge Advocate General's Corps, receiving numerous Meritorious Service Medals, awards, and commendations.
After graduation from Virginia Union University, Judge Price enrolled in law school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated with honors. His legal career began at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Judge Price returned to Alabama to work as an Assistant Attorney General. While serving in that capacity, the Attorney General for the State of Alabama appointed him Acting District Attorney for Escambia County, Alabama. He later became Deputy District Attorney for Montgomery County, Alabama, holding that position until he entered private practice. Judge Price was appointed Assistant Municipal Judge for Montgomery County and on April 4, 1983, Governor George C. Wallace appointed him Montgomery County Circuit Judge.
Judge Price has served as adjunct instructor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Alabama State University, and adjunct professor of law at the University of Alabama and Jones Law School. He has participated in many seminars, including Yale University School of Law and Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers Judicial College in Jackson, Wyoming. He likewise has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College. Presently, Judge Price serves as lecturer for the American Academy of Judicial Education and with other organizations on community, national and judicial matters.
Judge Price has served as President of the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association and as President of the Alabama Circuit Judge's Association in 2002-2003. He is a member of the National Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar Association, the Alabama Lawyers Association and the Montgomery County Bar Association. On January 6, 1999, he was unanimously elected Presiding Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Sigma Phi Boule Fraternity.
Judge Price is the recipient of numerous awards and citations: he was named Citizen of the Year in 1997 by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in 1997 by Omega Psi Phi, and in 1998 by Kappa Alpha Psi. In 1997, Alpha Phi Alpha presented him with an Achievement Award. In 2000, the National Bar Association presented him with the Raymond Pace Alexander Award.
Judge Price is the 1997 recipient of the 1997 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. He is also the recipient of the Alabama Democratic Conference John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In 1998, the National Education Association presented him with its Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. Judge Price received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from the University of West Alabama in 2001, and an Honorary Doctor of Christian Humanities from the Global Evangelical Christian College and Seminary in 2005. On December 11, 2006, he was appointed by the Governor of Alabama to the Tuskegee Board of Trustees.
Judge Price is the co-author of Alabama Peace Officers' Guide to Law Enforcement. Judge Price is married to Bernice B. Price, a college professor. They have two children: Susan Price, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School; and Charles Price II, a graduate of Morehouse College and Creighton University School of Law. Judge Price is a member of St. John's AME Church, where he serves as a steward and as a Sunday school teacher.
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