Mr. Humphries is a member of the firm Humphries & Brooks, LLC. The firm has built a reputation of being creative and service-oriented in its initiatives to resolve legal and other issues and foster global business opportunities for its clients. The firm specializes in structuring “collaborative advantage solutions” and producing results for a variety of corporate, association, government and individual clients.

Mr. Humphries is tireless in his advocacy of getting corporate America and urban America to work together. He has built a reputation as a counselor who overcomes barriers, finds solutions and delivers results. He was the principal organizer of a historic Blair House meeting between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the members of the Congressional Black Caucus during the negotiation of the Camp David Accords, for which both President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Most recently, he was the architect of the General Motors – Meharry Medical College – U.S. Department of Transportation partnership as part of a $1.2 billion initiative, which converted millions of people to seat belt use and a $10 million partnership between Meharry and State Farm Insurance Company, plus millions of dollars in funding for national and local motor vehicle health and safety initiatives. He structured the partnership agreements and gave the team a shared language and context which triggered an unprecedented level of high performance and return. Mr. Humphries also was the principal lawyer in structuring a multi-million dollar agreement on behalf of an association representing 160,000 nurses.

He worked closely with the former FCC Commissioner, Ben Hooks, and as Legal Counsel and Media Director for the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Humphries has served as Special Counsel to the Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, and as Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business. Mr. Humphries has served as a panelist and lecturer and as an adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University Law School.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Humphries is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law School. He served as a judicial intern with Federal Judge Damon Keith. Mr. Humphries is admitted to practice in Michigan, Washington, D.C., the federal courts and before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Humphries is a member of the Advisory Board of Templar Corporation, an advanced data access information technology firm.

As a volunteer, Mr. Humphries served for a decade as Head Usher at Washington National Cathedral and participated in the Inaugural Prayer Services for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Jr.

He currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Capitol region of the Boy Scouts of America, the College of Preachers of the Protestant Episcopal Foundation, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Diversity Advisory Committee of the St. Albans School Board of Trustees and the University of Michigan School of Nursing Board of Visitors. He is also a life member of the University of Michigan Letterman's Club (football), the NAACP and the National Bar Association.

Mr. Humphries, a former officer in the U.S. Army, is the eldest of 13 children, three of whom are lawyers. He is married to Dr. Jonca Bull and has three sons and a daughter.