John Payton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Payton
American NAACP figure
Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1946
Date of Death: 22-Mar-2012
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About John Payton
- For the Arkansas politician, see John Payton (politician).
- For people named John Peyton, see John Peyton.John A.
- Payton (December 27, 1946 – March 22, 2012) was a well-known African-American civil rights attorney.
- In 2008, Payton was appointed the sixth president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund serving in that post until his death.
- Prior to this, he was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale for twenty years.Payton was tapped to be the lead counsel for the University of Michigan in defending its law and undergraduate schools' use of race in their admissions processes.
- For more than six years, Payton handled the two high-profile cases in the trial court and in the court of appeals, and argued Gratz v.
- Bollinger before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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