Terry Russell

A fierce advocate for independence of the legal system and a champion for the less fortunate, former Bar President Terrence Joseph (Terry) Russell passed away February 28 in Jacksonville. He was 78

Russell, the Bar’s 53rd president, was born in September 1944, before World War II ended, and while his father, a D-Day veteran, was still overseas. Hardworking, blue-collar parents raised by immigrants taught Russell by example that “the only way to accomplish anything and to achieve a goal was by working for it. Nobody was going to hand it to me,” Russell once said.