FAMU law-school graduate follows in his grandfather's footsteps

52 years later, FAMU graduate follows in grandfather's footsteps

Fred Wallace spends his days and nights plowing through law books and computer files as he prepares for his first shot at The Florida Bar exam in July.

The marathon reading sessions are exhausting. But Wallace, one of the newest graduates of Florida A&M University's Orlando law school, knows he can turn to one of the school's first and oldest graduates for encouragement -- his 82-year-old grandfather Jennings Best.

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New dean at Florida A&M law college

Photo: FAMU College of Law Dean, LeRoy Pernell

LeRoy Pernell is the new dean of Florida A&M University's College of Law.

Pernell, who was dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law, says his main goal is to gain American Bar Association accreditation for the FAMU College of Law in Orlando. The college received provisional accreditation in 2004.

He replaces Percy Luney Jr., who was fired in 2005 after a payroll audit revealed Kentucky attorney Shirley Cunningham Jr. donated $1 million to the FAMU law school in return for a $100,000-a-year job that didn't require him to teach on-site. Luney maintained that FAMU's former presidents Frederick Humphries and Fred Gainous made the arrangement with Cunningham, not him.

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