Housing Assocation PA Human Rel Com Sponsor Fair Housing Breakfast Rekindling the Movement



April 27, 2005 -- The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PCHR) , the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PHRC), the Housing Association of Delaware Valley (HADV) and HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity will host a Fair Housing Breakfast on Thursday, May 28th at 8AM at the Union League 140 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia.

The theme of the breakfast is "Rekindling the Movement"     The sponsors are proud to present Gordon Joyner, Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity. Mr. Joyner is a dynamic speaker, who will discuss Housing Discrimination & Fair Housing In America: "From Slavery To The White House, Congress, the Supreme Court & Beyond."

Gorgon Joyner is a member of the bar in Georgia and Washington, DC and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His law practice includes housing discrimination, employment discrimination, business and corporate litigation, personal injury, and criminal law, and he has handled several precedent-setting voting and elections law cases in the trail and appellate courts of Georgia. He has also spoken throughout the country on fair housing and equal employment law. Mr. Joyner was born in Fort Valley, Georgia and grew up in Atlanta. Joyner is a summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College, where he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor societey, and majored in Business Administration/Economics and Political Science with minors in English and Spanish. He received his juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Joyner was appointed by Presidents Carter and Reagan as Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing Enforcement. He successfully represented complainants in the first housing discrimination case in the country to go to trial under the Fair Housing Amendments Act.

Mr. Joyner was appointed by Georgia's last two governors as Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity. He serves on the trustee board and usher board of Friendship Baptist Church, and has served on the executive board of the Atlanta NAACP and the family advisory committee of the Atlanta History Center. He has two children, Ashley and Shannon, and he is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.





Housing Assocation PA Human Rel Com Sponsor Fair Housing Breakfast Rekindling the Movement