About the Host

Our host describes himself as a “composer and conductor of ideas.” The Hidden Legal Figures podcast is just one of those ideas.

Derrick Alexander Pope started the Hidden Legal Figures podcast to “highlight the heroic and vital contribution that lawyers and judges made to the Civil Rights Movement.” He researches, writes, and narrates the episode with a lawyer’s mind and a curator’s insight.

Away from the podcast, Derrick teaches at the Georgia State University College of Law and at the Stetson School of Business and College of Professional Advancement at Mercer University. He is also the founding managing director of The Arc of Justice Foundation.

An Atlanta native, Derrick is a graduate of Morris Brown College and the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, earning top honors in the Loyola Law Clinic. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia where serves on three standing committees (Vice-Chair, Communications/Cornerstones of Freedom Program; Editorial Board of the Georgia Bar Journal, and the Advisory Committee on Legislation, and Past Co-Chair of the Committee on Inclusion in the Profession), the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.