RESUME: Alphonso Manns
(04/03/2018)
Home Address: 113 South. Glenwood Avenue West, Bloomington, Indiana 47408.
Office Address: 405 West 6th Street, Suite I, P.O. Box 1914, Bloomington, Indiana 47402.
Telephone: (812) 336-8076 (Office), (812) 320-2546 (Cell)
PERSONAL DATA:
Date of Birth: July 5, 1941.
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio.
Height: 6’ 1”.
Family: Spouse (Dollie Stafford Manns); five (5) adult children; eleven
(11) grand-children; and two (2) great grand-children.
EDUCATION:
East Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio, Diploma, 1959;
Honors and Activities:
President, School Chapter of the National Honor Society;
Track Team.
Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, B.S., 1964, Cum Laude;
Major: Chemistry; Minor: Mathematics.
Honors and Activities:
Vice-President and President of Senior Class;
Chairman, Cafeteria Committee;
Member, Student Council;
Member, Stage-crafters;
Treasurer, St. Anslem Chapel, Nashville, Tennessee;
Member, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Alpha Chi Chapter;
Men’s Senate “Man of the Year, 1964”;
Alumni “Leadership Honor, 1964”;
Beta Kappa Chi Honorary Society;
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities;
Recipient, Crown Zellerbach Scholarship.
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, J.D., 1972.
Honors and Activities:
Member, Student Bar Association;
Chairman, Black Student Lawyers Association, affiliated with
the Black American Law Student Association;
Member, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity;
Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow/Grantee of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation;
Project Coordinator, the Public Law Reform Organization;
Member, Committee for Equal Educational Opportunity, I.U. Bloomington Campus.
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs,
Bloomington, Indiana, M.P.A., 1975.
Indiana University Department of Political Science; Graduate
Studies; formerly affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop for Political Theory and Public Policy.
EMPLOYMENT & WORK EXPERIENCE:
Part-time Clerk, Sanna’s Meat Market, Cleveland, Ohio, 1956-61;
Truck Driver’s Helper, Beverage Distributors, Inc., Summers, 1963-65;
Junior Chemist and Microbiology Laboratory Assistant, Difco
Laboratories, Detroit, Michigan, 1965-66;
Legal Aide, Legal Aid Society, Cleveland, Ohio; Summer,1970;
Field Examiner and Law Clerk-Trainee, National Labor Relations Board,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1971-72;
Director of Human Relations for the Bloomington Campus and Part-time
Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies in the College of Arts
and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1972-74;
Secretary, Committee for Equal Educational Opportunity, I.U. Campus;
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1974 -79;
Attorney, private practice of law, Bloomington, Indiana, 1980 – present;
Former Monroe County Election Inspector.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE:
U.S. Army, First Lieutenant, (Active and Reserve) June 1966 – June 1972
(platoon leader, battalion intelligence officer, and battalion executive officer); (Honorable Discharge);
U.S. Navy (Reserve), Lieutenant Commander, May 1974 – 1976;
(Recruitment officer); (Honorable Discharge)
Schools:
Officers Candidate School; Ft. Benning, Georgia;
Advanced Infantry Training School, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina;
Combat Military Intelligence School, Federal Republic of WestGermany;
Chemical, Biological, Radiological School, Federal Republic ofWest Germany;
Air Ground Operations School, Federal Republic of West Germany;
Recruitment Officers Management Orientation School, Pensacola,Florida;
U.S. Naval War College (One correspondence course of continuing education).
ACTIVITIES & PERSONAL INTEREST:
Member, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Bloomington, Indiana;
Member, Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, Indiana;
Former coach of youth baseball and basketball, Bloomington, Indiana;
Former Executive Officer of Bloomington Black Business and Professional Association, Inc.
Indiana University Juneteenth Freedom Celebration 2012 Unsung Hero Award;
President’s Award, Monroe County Branch of the NAACP, 2012.
Member, Kiwanis Club of Bloomington, Indiana;
Member, Knights of Columbus;
Former Member of the Executive Board of the Columbian Home Association, Inc.;
Former Member, City of Bloomington/Monroe County Domestic Violence Task Force.
Volunteer, READ FOR 200 Initiative, Bloomington Commission on the
Status of Black Males and the Monroe County Community School Corporation.
TRAVELING EXPERIENCE:
Federal Republic of West Germany, Austria, France, England, Switzerland,
Holland, Canada, El Salvador, Honduras, Israel, and Zimbabwe.
PROFESSONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Member, Indiana University Alumni Association;
Member, Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity;
Former Member, Parents’ Council, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio);
Member and Former Executive Committee Officer, Monroe County Bar Association;
Member and Former Executive Committee Officer, Monroe County Chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.
Member, Indiana Bar Association;
Fellow, Indiana Bar Foundation;
Member, American Bar Association;
Member, Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit;
Admitted, Indiana Supreme Court;
Admitted, United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana;
Admitted, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Indiana;
Admitted, United States District Court, Eastern District of California;
Admitted, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit;
Admitted, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit;
Admitted, United States Supreme Court;
Former Affiliate, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political
Theory and Policy Analysis.
PRODUCTIONS:
Major Paper – Law School requirement:
Public Administrative School Policies and Judicial Opinions Which Affect
The Rights of Pregnant and Early Post-Partum Classroom Teachers: A
Proposed Provisional Model. (1972, 102 pages)
Major Paper – School of Public and Environmental Affairs requirement:
A Study of Developments and The Impact of Federal Water Pollution
Control Legislation and Regulations As They Relate To Intergovernmental
Relations and Comprehensive Planning: Proposed Wastewater Treatment Facilities in the Bloomington-Lake Monroe Area, Indiana In Point (1975, 108 pages)
Paper Presentations – Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis:
Public Choice, Pareto Optimality and the Pure Theory of Public Expenditures (1978);
A Spectral Analysis of Electoral Behavior (7/27/1979).
Proposed Ph.D. dissertation (Unfinished draft):
Self-Governance and The Beloved Community: Theoretical Perspectives
In Political Philosophy and Public Policy Analysis. (2011, 154 pages)
