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  Hollowell, Melvin "Butch"
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AffiliationDemocratic  
  2003-01-01  
 
NameMelvin "Butch" Hollowell
Address19320 Suffolk
Detroit, Michigan , United States
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InfoMelvin John "Butch" Hollowell Jr.

NATIONALLY RESPECTED ELECTION ATTORNEY Counsel to Vice President Al Gore in 2000 Florida Presidential Recount
Partner, Butzel Long, PC, one of Michigan's oldest and largest law firms
Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee, 1998 Presidential Impeachment Hearings
Life Member, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference
Chair, Federal Court Selection Committee



EXPERIENCED PUBLIC SERVANT
Chaired Transition Teams for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Wayne County Clerk and Detroit City Clerk
Defended Police Officers as Wayne County Trial Attorney
Directed Prison Work Program as Assistant Wayne County Executive
Directed Wayne County Civil Rights Agency
Chaired Thomas Fitzgerald for Michigan Supreme Court



COMMUNITY ACTIVIST AND BUSINESSMAN Coordinator Detroit Public Schools Adopt-a-School Project
Board Member: The Nature Conservancy - Michigan Chapter; Albion College Gerald Ford Institute for Public Service; University of Michigan Center for Community Service; Wayne State University Medical School; Marygrove College; United Way of Southeast Michigan
Co-Chaired, Gore-Lieberman Michigan
Political Director, Carl Levin for Senate
Chair, NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner
Partner, Kern Woodward Associates LLC, developer of $500 million Campus Martius project in downtown Detroit



EDUCATION University of Virginia Law School, JD: 1984
Albion College, BA (Commencement Speaker): 1981
University of Detroit Jesuit High School: 1977



PERSONAL Married for 17 years to Desiree Cooper, Journalist and Author
Children: Melvin "Jay" Hollowell, III (14); Desiree "Rae" Hollowell (11)




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  11/05/2002 MI Secretary of State Lost 42.96% (-12.00%)
  08/02/1994 MI District 14 - D Primary Lost 28.44% (-22.07%)
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