Southern Justice Advocates Presents: Coffee Chat with Steve Bright

Stephen B. Bright has represented people in capital cases since 1979. He tried capital cases before juries in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and argued capital cases before state and federal appellate courts, including four arguments before the United States Supreme Court. Three of the Supreme Court cases involved racial discrimination in jury selection and the fourth involved the right to a mental health expert for a poor person facing the death penalty. The Court ruled in favor of his client in each case.

He served as director the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta from 1982 to 2005, and as its president and senior counsel from 2006 to 2016. Before joining the Center, he was a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service in Washington, DC, and a legal services attorney at the Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Kentucky. He was also director of Law Students in Court (now called Rising for Justice), a clinical program operated by a consortium of law schools in Washington.

Please join Southern Justice Advocates for a casual conversation with Steve Bright on practicing in capital defense in the South.