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WHO'S WHO IN BLACK MONTGOMERY™
PRESS RELEASES
Jock Smith to Pen Foreword for Inaugural
Edition
of Who’s Who In Black Montgomery™
 Columbus,
Ohio - Who’s Who Publishing Company, the nation’s
largest annual directory publisher targeting the African-American
market, announced today that distinguished civil litigator Jock
Smith has signed on to write the foreword for the inaugural edition
of Who’s Who In Black Montgomery™.
Smith is president, founder and senior partner of The Cochran Firm,
one of the country’s largest plaintiffs’ law firms.
Practicing across the United States as a civil litigator for the
past 29 years, he has specialized in a variety of fields, including
automobile negligence, products liability and fraud, and he has
achieved numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts in civil cases.
As a member of a plethora of organizations and bar associations,
Smith has served as president of the Alabama Lawyers Association
and the Macon County Bar Association. He has also served as a municipal
judge for the State of Alabama and an administrative law judge for
the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The recipient
of numerous honors and awards, he is a highly sought-after speaker
and talk show guest who has appeared on several national radio and
television programs.
Influenced by his father, who was also a lawyer, Smith earned a
law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School after graduating
with honors from Tuskegee University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in history. A 20-year active member of Christian Life Church,
he is the husband of Yvette Smiley-Smith, managing principal of
Smiley Smith & Bright CPA, and the father of Janay, a student
at Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Smith shares, “In that the cradle of the civil rights movement
began in Montgomery with Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks striving
to provide inclusion for all to have access to the American dream,
it is indeed an honor to partner with Who’s Who Publishing
and pen the foreword for the inaugural edition of Who’s
Who In Black Montgomery™. Who’s Who has
unearthed new ground, and I commend C. Sunny Martin and the Who’s
Who In Black Montgomery™ staff on honoring and
profiling Montgomery’s rich history and affluent African Americans.”
C. Sunny Martin, Who’s Who Publishing Company’s founder
and CEO, affirms, “Jock Smith has had a career saturated with
success and is a tremendous asset to both the field of civil litigation
and the city of Montgomery. We look forward to his contribution
to this publication.”
Who’s Who Publishing Company began in Atlanta, Georgia, in
1989 and currently publishes similar annual directories in cities
nationwide. The book will be available in bookstores in the Montgomery
area.
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Eugene Curtain III Named Regional Publisher
in Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville, Alabama
 Columbus,
Ohio – Who’s Who Publishing Company, the nation’s
largest annual directory publisher targeting the African-American
market, enthusiastically announces that Eugene Edward Curtain III
has been tapped to serve as a regional publisher, overseeing the
publication of Who’s Who products in Montgomery, Mobile and
Huntsville, Alabama. Curtain is founder and president of Diversity
Search Partners, a company specializing in diversity executive recruitment.
In his position, Curtain leads the firm’s integrated services
and client strategy efforts worldwide. He is responsible for overseeing
a group of offices across North America, as well as driving the
firm’s state-of-the-art account management capability across
all global markets and delivering the firm’s best resources
to its core clients via its proprietary product offerings. He also
remains an active, hands-on executive recruiter, and serves as president
of diversity initiatives for The Corporate Playbook and as chair
of The Curtain Group.
A former U.S. Army paratrooper and jumpmaster who served with the
elite 82nd Airborne Division, Curtain served in combat operations
during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and peacekeeping
missions in Europe. He attended Alabama A&M University, Hampton
University and University of Maryland University College Europe
and hold degrees in management, leadership and organizational theory,
as well as a doctorate in business administration.
“I am deeply blessed to have the opportunity to become a part
of the Who’s Who family and represent such a tremendous product.
African-American history and talent is rich in Alabama, and I am
excited to chronicle and capture the accomplishments and achievements
of our people,” shares Curtain.
Who’s Who founder and CEO C. Sunny Martin affirms, “Eugene
Curtain’s tireless efforts to match major corporations with
highly talented minorities have been of the greatest importance
to increasing the number of African-American executives throughout
the country. We are pleased to welcome him to the Who’s Who
family.”
Who’s Who Publishing Company began in Atlanta, Georgia, in
1989 and currently publishes directories in cities nationwide.
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