Morris Dees

Morris Seligman Dees Jr. is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama. He ran a direct marketing firm before founding SPLC. Along with his law partner, Joseph J. Levin Jr., Dees founded the SPLC in 1971. Dees and his colleagues at the SPLC have been "credited with devising innovative ways to cripple hate groups" such as the Ku Klux Klan, particularly by using "damage litigation".

16 December 1936

Born on the same birth day (16 December): Bart Oates • Billy Ripken • Catherine of Aragon • Ernst Florian Winter • Eulalio González • Gareth Williams (footballer, born 1981) • John Kirwan (rugby) • Ludwig van Beethoven • Mame Biram Diouf • Mike Flanagan (baseball) • Pärt Uusberg • Steven Bochco • Zoltán Kodály

Born in the same month (December 1936): Alan Coleman • Bill Ashton (jazz musician) • Bobby Ross • David Ossman • Frederic Forrest • Howard Smith (director) • Iolanda Balaș • Ismail Merchant • James Burke (science historian) • Joe D'Amato • John Giorno • Malcolm Kirk • Mary Tyler Moore • Pope Francis • Ray Nitschke • Tommy Steele