Reverend O. Jerome Green, Esq.
Biographical Sketch
Reverend O. Jerome Green, Esq. is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist
Episcopal Church and a licensed attorney with over 25 years of experience in litigation and
transactions involving business, education, politics, church law matters and economic
development. He is currently employed as Visiting Professor of Government/Director of
Government Relations at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama, and is registered on the
Alabama Supreme Court’s list of approved mediators. He is pastor of Gaines Chapel AME
Church in Anniston, Alabama.
Green received his B.A. degree from Miles College, his M.A. degree from The Ohio State
University, and his J.D. degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has studied at
Jackson Theological Seminary in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and is currently enrolled in
further study at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. Green holds the honorary
degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Shorter College in North Little, Rock, Arkansas.
A former Assistant City Attorney for the City of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1991 Green became the
first black partner in the Little Rock law firm of Gill, Wallace, Clayton & Elrod (now the Gill
Firm), after clerking for three years for U.S. Magistrate John Forster at the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. In 1993, Green opened his own law firm, Jerome
Green & Associates (with offices in Little Rock and Washington, DC), representing clients such
as the Little Rock National Airport, 3M Corporation, Donrey Media, the Arkansas Medical
Dental & Pharmaceutical Association, and the 12th Episcopal District of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Green was appointed by then Governor Bill Clinton in 1991 to a five year term on the Arkansas
Ethics Commission, which he chaired from 1994 to 1995. In 1995, Green was appointed by
President Bill Clinton to a six year term on the Panel of Conciliators for the International Center
for Settlement of Investment Disputes (a division of The World Bank). Green was also an
external economic development consultant for USDA’s Rural Business Administration from
1996 to 2000 and was a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. Green is currently a
member of the State Executive Committee of the Alabama Democratic Party. Green was actively
involved in the development of farm cooperatives across the South as a part of the Clinton
Administration’s “New Market Initiative” and was a facilitator of the USDA/Burger King
Corporation Memorandum of Understanding, which created millions of dollars in new markets
for small and minority vendors.
Green returned to his home state of Alabama in 2005 and lectures frequently to groups on church
property litigation and public policy issues. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Pi
Phi Fraternities.