JOHN OBEE served in the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s and later worked at the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, during which time he obtained his law degree. He clerked for the Honorable Blair Moody, Jr. of the Michigan Supreme Court. For more than thirty years, he has specialized in the litigation of housing discrimination cases. He was an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State College of Law and has lectured nationally and internationally on discrimination issues.