James D. Keeney

JAMES D. KEENEY was born in Aurora, Colorado on July 24, 1943. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Before entering upon his law studies, he served two years as a volunteer teacher in Tanzania. After graduating, he worked as an Assistant Attorney General at the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. In 1979 he moved to Miami and became a Supervisory Trial Attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In 1986 Keeney left the EEOC and went into private practice in Sarasota, Florida, where he specialized in employment discrimination and civil rights litigation, and later in securities arbitration and litigation, recovering stock market and other financial losses for his clients.

"Enforcing the Civil Rights Act" is Keeney's first book.