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Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. Honored by Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence in Drug Policy and Law Advocacy
Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. is lauded for his dedication to drug law reform, health care and education for African-Americans
WASHINGTON, DC, October 22, 2010 /Nonprofit PR News/ -- Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., National Executive Director of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, was recently featured in Cambridge Publishing's Top 101 Industry Experts book. The Top Industry Experts reveals the objectives and triumphs prominent Cambridge members have achieved to gain success. Selected from more than 400,000 executives, professionals and entrepreneurs, these exemplary leaders stay at the top of their fields by possessing unique experience and wisdom, all the while exhibiting innovation in their work.
Arthur L. Burnett Sr. served the United States court system with an admirable tenure of 52 years. He was appointed the first African-American United States Magistrate (now called United States Magistrate Judges) on June 26, 1969. Since 2004, he has served as the national executive director of the National African-American Drug Policy Coalition, Inc., a professional organization dedicated to drug law reform, health care and education for the African-American community.
Mr. Burnett is a senior judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on sabbatical since August 2004, and is serving as the national executive director of the National Coalition. In addition to his work on the bench, he was the court's community relations liaison judge for more than a decade, with the responsibility of preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency, and promoting improvements in the foster care and adoption systems of the District of Columbia before his sabbatical. Prior to being appointed to the Superior Court in 1987, he served as a magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for more than 14 years. Before his appointment to the United States District Court, he served as the legal advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, as an assistant United States attorney in the District of Columbia and, before then, as a staff attorney in the criminal division of the United States Department of Justice.
Mr. Burnett received a JD from the New York University School of Law in 1958. While attending, he served as the associate research editor of the school's Law Review and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class. He obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and economics, summa cum laude, from Howard University, where he now also serves as an adjunct professor in its School of Law. He was a member of the American Bar Association Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children; a chair of the National Bar Association Juvenile Justice Task Force and a chair of its Juvenile Justice Committee, and on the board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and on the board of directors of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. He is also currently President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Time Dollar Youth Court, Inc., a nonprofit corporation serving as a pretrial diversion program for the Superior Court of D.C. juvenile offenders. On March 25, 2010, Mr. Burnett was honored at the National African-American Drug Policy Coalition's Memorial Gala and Award Ceremony with its Outstanding Leadership Award, and on April 16, 2010 he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the John Carroll Society of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
In his spare time, Mr. Burnett enjoys public speaking, gardening and attending football games. His oldest son, Arthur L. Burnett II, is a professor in the Department of Urology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Through his pioneering work with nitric oxide biochemical mechanisms affecting erectile tissue, Dr. Burnett II played an important role in the clinical development of medications such as Viagra, which are used to treat erectile dysfunction.
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