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): Bill Young (Florida politician) • Chiharu Matsuyama • Craig Goodwin • Elizabeth Carter • Hans Bol • John Kirwan (rugby) • Jon Tenney • Jyoti Amge • Mikkel Bødker • Ulrikke Eikeri • Valentin Bădoi • Xander Berkeley

Born in the same month (December 1936): Bill Ashton (jazz musician) • David Carradine • David Ossman • Freddy Cannon • Hans van den Broek • Joe D'Amato • Mary Tyler Moore • Phil Sharpe (cricketer) • Pope Francis • Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy • Taku Yamasaki • Trevor Taylor (racing driver) • Willie Wood