The American Constitutional Rights Union mourns the passing of Jack Park, our Senior Legal Advisor, who died on March 16, 2026. He was 71 years old.
Jack was a cornerstone of ACRU’s legal work. Since 2019, he served as our Senior Legal Advisor from his private practice in Gainesville, Georgia, specializing in appellate and amicus work for ACRU, The Buckeye Institute, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, and others. His constitutional litigation was sharp, principled, and deeply informed by decades of service to the law and to his country.
A Life of Service
Jack’s career began in uniform. He served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps on both active duty and in the Reserves, representing the government in appeals from court-martial convictions and helping instruct criminal trial advocacy at the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. He chaired the Alabama State Bar’s Military Law Section for several years and helped organize the Section’s annual Military Law Symposium. He continued his service as a volunteer with the Georgia State Defense Force.
After his release from active duty in 1985, Jack joined the Birmingham, Alabama, law firm now known as Bradley, where he concentrated on government contract and construction law. In 1995, he moved to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, where he defended the State, its agencies, and officials in voting rights, redistricting, election law, institutional reform litigation, employment discrimination, and construction matters.
From 2007 to 2009, Jack served as Special Assistant to the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service, working with auditors, investigators, and support personnel to monitor the Corporation’s activities and assist in audits and investigations of its grantees.
Jack then served as a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Judicial and Legal Studies, where he worked alongside former Attorney General Edwin Meese and other attorneys on Supreme Court, overcriminalization, civil rights, and civil justice projects.
From 2011 through 2018, Jack served as of counsel at the Atlanta law firm of Strickland Brockington Lewis, working as a deputy attorney general for the State of Alabama.
Education
Jack graduated from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a B.A. in History and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. He was widely published throughout his career.
Remembering Jack
Jack Park brought decades of constitutional expertise, military discipline, and quiet integrity to everything he touched. His contributions to ACRU’s mission were immeasurable, and his absence will be deeply felt.
Additional details are available here.
In Memoriam: Jack Park, ACRU Senior Legal Advisor (1954–2026)
March 20, 2026
The American Constitutional Rights Union mourns the passing of Jack Park, our Senior Legal Advisor, who died on March 16, 2026. He was 71 years old.
Jack was a cornerstone of ACRU’s legal work. Since 2019, he served as our Senior Legal Advisor from his private practice in Gainesville, Georgia, specializing in appellate and amicus work for ACRU, The Buckeye Institute, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, and others. His constitutional litigation was sharp, principled, and deeply informed by decades of service to the law and to his country.
A Life of Service
Jack’s career began in uniform. He served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps on both active duty and in the Reserves, representing the government in appeals from court-martial convictions and helping instruct criminal trial advocacy at the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. He chaired the Alabama State Bar’s Military Law Section for several years and helped organize the Section’s annual Military Law Symposium. He continued his service as a volunteer with the Georgia State Defense Force.
After his release from active duty in 1985, Jack joined the Birmingham, Alabama, law firm now known as Bradley, where he concentrated on government contract and construction law. In 1995, he moved to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, where he defended the State, its agencies, and officials in voting rights, redistricting, election law, institutional reform litigation, employment discrimination, and construction matters.
From 2007 to 2009, Jack served as Special Assistant to the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service, working with auditors, investigators, and support personnel to monitor the Corporation’s activities and assist in audits and investigations of its grantees.
Jack then served as a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Judicial and Legal Studies, where he worked alongside former Attorney General Edwin Meese and other attorneys on Supreme Court, overcriminalization, civil rights, and civil justice projects.
From 2011 through 2018, Jack served as of counsel at the Atlanta law firm of Strickland Brockington Lewis, working as a deputy attorney general for the State of Alabama.
Education
Jack graduated from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a B.A. in History and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. He was widely published throughout his career.
Remembering Jack
Jack Park brought decades of constitutional expertise, military discipline, and quiet integrity to everything he touched. His contributions to ACRU’s mission were immeasurable, and his absence will be deeply felt.
Additional details are available here.
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