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): Alexander Lebedev • Anamul Haque • Antonio Vega (singer) • Billy Gibbons • Charles Gipson • Donovan Bailey • Ernst von Bergmann • Heike Drechsler • John Kirwan (rugby) • Lizzy Mercier Descloux • Manuel III of Trebizond • Paul McGinley • Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey • Seyhan Kurt • Shane Black • Simon Grayson • Trevor Immelman

Born in the same month (December 1936): David Carradine • Hans van den Broek • Howard Smith (director) • Igor Rodionov • James Burke (science historian) • Joe D'Amato • Malcolm Kirk • Michael Z. Hobson • Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy • Trevor Taylor (racing driver)