Samford University’s Howard College of Arts and Science will host the Colloquium on American Citizenship, Thursday, Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. at Reid Chapel. The featured speaker, Judge Janice Rogers Brown, will present “Thoughts on Culture: Looking to the Past to Look to the Future”.

Brown, a native of Greenville, Alabama, enjoyed a distinguished judicial career, including her confirmation to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2005, and her tenure as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005. Brown received her degrees from California State University (Sacramento), UCLA and the University of Virgnia.

“Judge Janice Rogers Brown is a wise and inspirational leader in the American judiciary,” said Jason Wallace, Stockham Chair of Western Intellectual History and colloquium organizer. “She possesses an amazing ability to elicit and explain the meaning of freedom under the American constitutional order. Her insights into law, history, and culture provoke serious reflection on the purpose of government and our duties as citizens.”

The lecture is free to the public, and convocation credit is available for Samford students.

The Colloquium on American Citizenship is presented in partnership with the Birmingham chapter of the Federalist society.