Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Robert Lewis Harris
Robert Lewis Harris
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| Other authors / contributors: | Harris, Robert Lewis, 1944- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2007 July 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Attorney Robert L. Harris was born on March 4, 1944 in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. A 1965 graduate of San Francisco State University, he received his law degree in 1972 from the University of California at Berkeley Law School. He joined the legal staff of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in San Francisco. In 1976, he became President of the Charles Houston Bar Association. In 1978, he and other CHBA members successfully defended the NAACP, pro bono, against libel charges. He later received the NAACP's W. Robert Ming Award. In 1979 Harris became the first West Coast lawyer to become President of the National Bar Association. In 1985, he argued and won for PG&E a landmark corporate free speech case in the U.S. Supreme Court. After completing the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1988, he rose at PG&E to Vice President of Community Relations and later Vice President of Environmental Affairs.
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