The 1955 Charles Houston Law Club Founders: John Drake, Esq., Lawrence Sledge, Esq., George R. Vaughns, Esq., Hon. George D. Carroll, Carl B. Metoyer, Esq., Terry A. Francois, Esq., Hon. Justice Clinton W. White, Hon. Lionel Wilson, Claude O. Allen, Esq., Thomas L. Berkley, Esq., Charles E. Wilson, Esq., Sherman W. Smith, Esq., Hon. Richard Bancroft, Hon. Franklin H. Williams, Hon. Justice Wiley W. Manuel, Hon. Raymond Jordan ("R.J.") Reynolds, Francis S. Heffron, Esq., Murvill C. Abels, Esq., Edward D. Mabson, Esq., H. Leroy Cannon, Esq., Hon. Joseph G. Kennedy, John Adams Jr., Esq., Hon. John W. Bussey, Hiawatha T. Roberts, Esq., William C. Dixon, Esq., Hon. Justice Cecil Poole, Hon. Maurice Hardeman, Armeka T. Jackson, Esq., Solomon Johnson, Esq., Garfield Steward, Esq., Hon. Wilmont Sweeney, Charles Blagburn, Esq., and, in memoriam, John C. Henderson, Esq.