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State Bar & Bar Associations

Sep. 18, 2009

Orange County Legal Community Mourns Loss of Trailblazer, Raconteur

Donald S. Gray 1945-2009

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Donald S. Gray, the only African-American president of the Orange County Bar Association, passed away Saturday night while awaiting an organ transplant. He was 65.

Gray was general counsel of Toshiba America Information Systems in Irvine and the former director of military equal opportunity programs at the Pentagon during the Carter administration.

"Color was really the last thi...

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