About Dwight Pettit

Personal Data
Birth date: September 29, 1945
Birthplace: Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Married: Barbara Moore
Children: Alvin Dwight Pettit, Jr. & Nahisha Pettit
Church Affiliation: Bethel AME Church

Activities
Member of Maryland Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee, 2006
Member of Democrats for Ehrlich/Steel Gubernatorial Campaign 2002
Completed integration of Harford County Public Schools, 1960 Pettit vs. Board of Education of Harford County.
Counsel to Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1975 to present.
Member of Baltimore Blews (Blacks and Jews), 1975 to 1980.
Co-Chairman, Maryland Jimmy Carter for President Primary and General Elections, 1976
Chairman, Jessie Jackson Campaign, Baltimore City, 1984.
Counsel to Baltimore County Branch, NAACP, 1984 to 1986.
Member of the Conference Call Panel for WFBR and WCBM, 1988 to 1998.
Host, Harford County Radio WHRF, “Talking with A. Dwight Pettit”.
Co-host, WOLB Radio Program “It’s the Law”, sponsored by Pettit/Frank & Associates.
Served as visiting legal analysis and commentator on WMAR TV, Channel 2 for O. J. Simpson trial and the Clinton impeachment.
Partnership formation with Arthur Frank & Associations creating Pettit/Frank & Associates, 1994.
Frequent legal analyst and radio guest for WOLB Radio, WEAA Radio, and WCBM Radio.