Social Work Colloquium at UA to Feature Trustee Emeritus Cleo Thomas Feb. 18

TUSCALOOSA, Ala — Cleo Thomas Jr., trustee emeritus for the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, will be the featured speaker for the University of Alabama School of Social Work’s 17th Annual African-American Heritage Month Program Friday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. in 223 Little Hall on the UA campus.

Thomas, a resident of Anniston, is chairman and chief executive officer of A. G. Gaston Corp., the holding company for Booker T. Washington Insurance Co. and its subsidiary companies.

He is a 1977 graduate of UA, where he was the first African-American elected as president of the Student Government Association. He received the George C. Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University in England, and was awarded a B.A. degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford in 1980. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1982, and served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge J. Foy Guin from 1982-83.

For more information about this event, please contact Vickie Whitfield in the School of Social Work at 205/348-3942.