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Roy Carleton Howell (born April 10, 1954) is an American lawyer, law professor, businessman, and civil rights advocate. Born in Detroit, Michigan to heroin addicted parents, Howell was raised by his maternal grandparents. Howell has worked alongside many prominent individuals and campaigns, serving as an attorney for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, the Federal Communications Commission, and litigated several groundbreaking civil rights cases. Howell is currently engaged in private practice and a member of the District of Columbia, Michigan, New York, and West Virginia bars. He associates with Hall Makled.

Early Life
As an infant Howell’s parents took him to the South side of Chicago where he lived until 1959 when his Detroit maternal grandparents took custody when both his parents went to prison. His life in Detroit was tragic as his Uncle Brian, Uncle Thomas, mother Drucilla, father Adolph, Aunt Otis-Dean, and Aunt Cassandra all died tragic, drug related deaths. It was his maternal grandmother, Gladys Gatewood Hayden who mentored, and guided him.

Education
Howell graduated from Kentucky State University with a Bachelors in Political Science in 1975, a Jurist Doctorate from Howard University in 1977, and a Masters of Laws from Georgetown University in 1980. At Howard University he was a member of the prestigious Howard Law Journal where he published his first article[1].

Career
In 1974 Howell began his legal career as a paid student-intern at the Kentucky Public Defender in Frankfort before going to Howard University School of Law. In 1977 he worked as an intern for the City of Louisville Law Department before working as an attorney for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights in 1978.

In 1979, during the Carter Administration, Howell was hired as a communications attorney at the Federal Communications Commission where he worked for the Aviation and Marine Bureau. Howard University Law School Dean, Wiley Austin Branton, hired Howell to teach Business Associations and Agency in 1981. In 1982 Congressman George W. Crockett hired him as a staff attorney, and assigned him to the Judiciary Committee.

The HIV/AIDS virus devastated inner-city Washington, DC in 1983, and as a Legal Aid attorney representing indigent Black clients Howell litigated DC Superior Court Family Law cases, and published about it in, “Representing The Indigent Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Client.”[2]

Returning to teach law in 1987, Howell taught Criminal Law, and Comparative Jurisdiction at the University of Nairobi Faculty of Law, and published academic artitcals in the area. Howell is currently engaged in private practice and a member of the District of Columbia, Michigan, New York, and West Virginia bars. He associates with Hall Makled.

[1] Howell, R.C. (1978). “Village Of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.: Exclusionary Zoning,” 21 Howard Law Journal 21: 256. ISSN 0018-6813 (1978).

[2] Howell, Roy Carleton, “Representing The Indigent Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Client.” 23 Southern University Law Review 51 (1995)

[3] Little Chocolate Solider, Huntington, West Virginia: University Editions, Inc. a division of Aegina Press: 1992.