Dedication and Commitment to the Community
Byrd & Associates has contributed service, time and funds to the community through  providing pro bono legal work, fundraising, mentoring, supporting of the arts, political activism and other forms of philanthropy.  Byrd & Associates strongly believes in progressive change within the communities where we work and live.

Community Achievements & Contributions

• First African-American Chancery Court Judge in the History of Mississippi (1989)(Filled unexpired term  -did not seek re-election)
• Tougaloo College Hall of Fame Inductee
• Frederick Douglas Moot Court Law School Competition Sponsor
• Annual Sponsor – Margaret Walker Alexander “Isaac K. Byrd, Jr. For My People” Luncheon
• Annual Lynch Street (African American historic district) Cultural Arts Festival
• $1 Million Contribution to Tougaloo College, a HBCU and Undergraduate Alma Mater
• Established ACLU  Byrd-Silverman Legal Fellowship Program – 3rd Year Law Students
• Jubilee Jam (cultural music festival) Annual Sponsor
• Annual Sponsor of Universal Soul Circus for Underprivileged Children
• Sponsored Mississippi Blues Party Chicago for “Year of the Blues”
• Co-Sponsor Mississippi Development authority – Mississippi Blues Reception in Chicago
• Ballet Magnificat, Mississippi Opera & Museum of Art Benefactor
• “Passages of Africa”  Photo Exhibit Sponsor- Museum of Art ($ 50,000)
• Jackson Public School Adopter of Three Schools
• B. B. King Museum Advisory Board Member
• Kresge Foundation Philanthropic Recipient
• Annual Hattie and Isaac Byrd Scholarship (Father and Mother)-Gentry H.S.-Indianola, Mississippi
• Tougaloo College Board of Trustees (1984- Present)
• Mississippi Fundraiser for Senator Obama – Campaign for Senator

General Counsel- Mississippi NAACP, General Missionary Baptist State Convention of MS , Inc. and African American State Troopers Association