Merl Code, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian football player
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1948
Place of Birth: Seneca, South Carolina, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Merl Code
- Merl Code (born September 8, 1948) is a lawyer and former Grey Cup champion Canadian Football League player. The son of Allen Louis Code and Sedalia Blassingame Code, he played his college football at North Carolina A&T University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (Cum Laude.) Turning professional in 1970, Code played in the CFL with the Montreal Alouettes, where he won a Grey Cup championship in his rookie season.
- After playing 30 regular season games for the Als over 4 seasons, he jumped to the new World Football League, playing 2 seasons with the Memphis Southmen.
- He finished his football career back in the CFL with the Ottawa Rough Riders, playing 5 games and intercepting 2 passes for 21 yards.After his football days were over, Code returned to school at the University of South Carolina's School of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate degree in 1979.
- He was an Earl Warren Legal Scholar, and became the first African American to serve as president of the Student Bar Association at USC. Now a Municipal Judge, his accomplishments are many: the first African American to serve as a Municipal Court Judge in Greenville, South Carolina in 1981; the first African American to serve as Chairman of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce in 1999, the Order of the Palmetto, in 1996, South Carolina's highest civilian award; the Compleat Lawyer Award by the South Carolina Bar Association in 1997; North Carolina A&T University Hall of Fame in 1981; and he was inducted into the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame in 1999. He is also the owner & CEO of Precision Tool Manufacturer, the owner & chair of Code Insurance Associates, and president of Code & Associates, a sports management agency.Code practices law with Ogletree Deakins and he and his wife Denise have 2 children. In October, 2018, Code is represented his son, Merl Code Jr.,who was on trial after his arrest in the 2017-2018 NCAA basketball recruiting scandal.
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