CHARLES W BOWSER, ESQUIRE |
PROFESSIONAL CAREER |
Attorney-at-Law | January 1958 to present |
President, Bowser & Weaver, PC | March 1990 to present |
Senior Shareholder, Baskin, Flaherty, Elliott & Mannino, P.C., Attorneys-at-Law | 1987- 1990 |
Senior Partner, Pechner, Dorfman, Wolffe, Rounick & Cabot, Attorneys-at - Law | 1975 - 1987 |
Executive Director, Philadelphia Urban Coalition | 1968 - 1975 |
Chair, National Association of Urban Coalition Executive Directors | 1973- 1975 |
Deputy Mayor of Philadelphia | 1967- 1969 |
Executive Director, Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Committee | 1964 - 1967 |
Partner, Hazel & Bowser, Attorneys-at-Law | 1958 - 1964 |
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS |
Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Reform,
Appointed by Governor Robert Casey, | 1987-1988 |
Advisory Committee on Appellate Court Rules of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
Appointed by Chief Justice Robert N C Nix, | 1995 to present |
Chairman, Federal Judicial Nominating Commission of Pennsylvania,
Appointed by United States Senators for Pennsylvania Arlen Specter and John Heinz | 1982 |
Special Counsel, Temple University | 1990 |
Special Counsel, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, | 1988 to present |
General Counsel, Philadelphia Charter Review Advisory Committee, | 1988 |
Special Counsel to the Drafting Chairman of the Platform Committee,
Democrat National Convention | 1988 |
Member of the Delegation to the Bureau of International Expositions, Paris, France,
to negotiate agreement for an international exposition in Philadelphia | 1975 |
Lecturer, Temple University Department of Urban Studies | 1972 |
Special Counsel, A.F.N.A. (American Foundation for Negro Affairs)
Investigation of KYW-TV attacks on Black Leaders, | 1984 |
GOVERNMENTAL APPOINTMENTS |
Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission, Appointed by Mayor W. Wilson Goode |
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Co-Chairman, Home Rule Charter Revision Transition Team, Appointed by Mayor John Street, | January 2000 |
Mayor's Commission on the Twenty-first Century, Appointed by Mayor W Wilson Goode, | 1984 |
Philadelphia County Board of Public Assistance, Appointed by Governor David Lawrence, | 1961 - 1963 |
Mayor's Police Advisory Board of Philadelphia, Appointed by Mayor Richardson Dilworth, | 1961-1963 |
Executive Director of the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Committee,
Appointed by Mayor James H J Tate, | 1964 - 1967 |
Deputy Mayor of Philadelphia,
Appointed by Mayor James H J Tate, | 1967- 1969 |
HONORS |
October 8, 1998: Recipient of the "Humanitarian Award",
presented by the International Humanitarian Award Committee | October 8, 1998 |
Charles W. Bowser Mentoring Institute,
established by The National Union of Hospital and Health Care Workers, 1199C, | 1995 |
Association of Black Journalists Man of the Year Award |
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Philadelphia Urban Coalition Outstanding Service Award |
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Philadelphia Barristers Club Austin Norris Leadership Award |
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Philadelphia NAACP Exceptional Civil Rights Service Award |
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Philadelphia Opportunities Industria1ization Centers (OIC) Community Service Award |
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Lincoln University Alumni Community Leadership Award |
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Tuskegee University Alumni Leadership Award |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) Community Service Award |
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National Urban Coalition Leadership Award |
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Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, Texas College, Tyler, Texas |
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EDUCATION |
Central High School of Philadelphia - | 1948 |
Temple University, B.S. Journalism - | 1952 |
Temple Law School, J.D. - | 1957 |
U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal School, Aberdeen, Maryland | 1952 |
MILITARY SERVICE |
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Expert, U.S. Army, 1952-1954;
Action during the Korean Conflict clearing mined fields, defusing and destroying unexploded bombs and shells. |
PUBLICATIONS |
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Urban Commentaries - Selected Speeches, Articles and Poetrv Of Charles W. Bowser
1960 to 1997 -- edited by Maria S Bowser: 1999 |
Let The Bunker Burn: The Final Battle With MOVE, Camino Books -May 1989 |
The Apartheid Solution - An Anti-Apartheid Act, Omnibus Publishing Company -1985 |
Is Less Than 2% Enough? (A study of news coverage of Philadelphia's Black Community),
Omnibus Publishing Company, 1985 |
Rethinking Cities to Make Them Work For Us, published by Educational Impact, Inc., 1979 |
Prerogatives of the Powerful - Plight of the Poor, Villanova Law Review, May, 1974 |
1974 - 1975 Columnist, Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer Newspaper |
1970 - 1974 Urban Affairs Columnist, Philadelphia Tribune Newspaper |
1998 - Present Urban Affairs Columnist, Philadelphia Tribune Newspaper |