James A. Tucker

James A. Tucker is Director of the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), a service program of the School of Law at the University of Alabama. After attending public schools in Decatur, Ala., he earned his Finance degree at the University of Alabama in 1982 and law degree at Emory University in 1986. Before going to ADAP, he worked for Florida Rural Legal Services, the ACLU of Alabama, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has litigated class actions in federal and state courts addressing disability, gender, and race discrimination as well as mental health, foster care, education, employment, housing, voting, corrections, and Medicaid issues. He is a member of the Bar in Alabama, Florida and Georgia (both inactive). He has received numerous awards for his disability advocacy work in Alabama and is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is married and the father of two adult daughters, one a Presbyterian minister in Georgia and one who completed her Ph.D. at the Univ. of Virginia.