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July 02, 2024 Feature Article

CREDP Commissioner Highlight featuring Aaron Burrell

Keevin Woods, Author | Edited by The Innovator Subcommittee

Aaron Burrell is a business lawyer and partner at Dickinson Wright PLLC in Detroit, where he focuses his practice in the areas of commercial law, labor and employment law, appeals, and minority business enterprises.

Aaron has demonstrated leadership in the legal profession throughout his career. He has served as as a Commissioner on the State Bar of Michigan’s Board of Commissioners, where he currently serves on its Public Policy and Executive Committees; chair of the State Bar of Michigan’s Representative Assembly; co-chair of the State Bar of Michigan’s Equal Access Initiative; and President of the D. Augustus Straker Bar Association. He is a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, a Director on the Board of Directors of Cooley Law School, and a fellow of the Michigan State and American Bar Foundations.

Aaron has been named a “40 Under 40 Honoree” by Crain’s Detroit Business, the Michigan Chronicle, and the National Bar Association; a “Top Lawyer” in Labor and Employment Law by DBusiness Magazine; a “Black Leader Worth Watching™” by Profiles in Diversity Journal; a Michigan Top 100 Bet-the Company-Litigator®; and a “Super Lawyer” by Michigan Super Lawyers.

Keevin Woods

Director - Diversity, Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession

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