GPS, Duke University, and Georgetown University Law Center alum Nedra Campbell, '90, came home to Chattanooga as the featured speaker for the 2003 Tolerance Conference at the Chattanooga African American Museum.
She returned as an author of the just published guide to the American legal system, More Justice, More Peace.
Before a book signing at the museum, she talked about her education at GPS. Remembering an 8th grade "Choices" class, she recalls that class as one in which she made goals for herself, and she still has the book in which she wrote out her career plan.
"When I turned 30," she said, "I looked at the goals I had written in 8th grade and was excited to see 'published author and attorney.'"
With experience in civil litigation cases in Detroit involving police misconduct, harassment, and racial and religious discrimination, Campbell has written a reference book for African Americans to guide them in understanding and dealing with the legal system.