Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Daryl D. Parks is an accomplished lawyer and businessman. He specializes in personal injury, wrongful death, and civil rights issues and has made significant contributions to his North Florida community through his legal practice.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Daryl Parks was born in June 1968 in the Lake Hamilton area of Haines City. One of the memories he remembers is picking oranges after school and on weekends alongside his mother and grandmother. He still recalls how it took 10 wooden crates full of oranges to equal a bin that paid 7 dollars. Daryl says that owing to this, he has a great appreciation for every dollar he makes.
- His mother and grandmother raised him with high expectations and steady hands. They even worked in a packing house and instilled hard work.
- Daryl’s mother, Barbara Park only had a high school education but expected a lot out of her son. She would say that Daryl would have to answer to her if he brought home anything less than a C grade.
- Barbara died in 1993 when Daryl was at the end of his first year of law school. Her influence on her son’s life still lives on to this day.
- Daryl’s father, Major Harris Parks lived in Missouri while Daryl grew up in another state, but they reconciled after and made amends. His father even came to Baltimore to celebrate his swearing in ceremony.
- Daryl’s grandmother, Naomi Parks lives in Kissimmee, Florida, in a house he owns and he has talked about how she always played steady hand in his life.
- In 1986, Daryl enrolled in Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) on a presidential scholarship where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics.
- He then went on to get his law degree from Florida State University College of Law.
Legal Career, Law Firm, Reviews and Net Worth :
- A year after graduating from Florida State University, Daryl and his law partner, Ben Crump started their own law firm in Tallahassee.
- One of their significant cases included the family of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, who died while incarcerated at a Bay County juvenile boot camp, a notorious case that helped convince the Legislature to close all remaining juvenile boot camps in Florida.
- In 2011, Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince swore in 43-year-old Parks as the 69th President of the National Bar Association, America’s “oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges.” During his tenure, he worked with the American Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association, to fix a gulf between the ABA’s ratings of white federal court nominees and its ratings of nominees of color.
- Daryl has received numerous awards which include Leadership Pacesetter Award from the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, the Leon County Small Business of the Year award, the NAACP Chairman of the Board Award, the Florida Bar Henry Latimer Award, the Advocates Award from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Law, and the Johnnie L. Cochran Soaring Eagle Award from the American Justice Association.
- Deeply involved in the legal and civil rights landscape, Parks has collaborated with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to address voting-related barriers, particularly in the state of Florida.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Daryl was inducted into the FAMU hall of fame as a contributor and supporter in 2022.
- Some of the cases he’s worked on are the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman and the death of Martin Lee Anderson following a beating by guards at a Bay County youth detention center.
- Daryl’s favorite thing to do with his family are watching movies and visiting Chuck E. Cheese.
- He and his law partner, Benjamin Crump, pledged a substantial gift of $1 million to support Legal Services of North Florida
FAQs :
- Where is Daryl Parks now?? : Daryl D. Parks Joins Ferraro Law Firm as Senior Counsel.
- Daryl Parks ethnicity : Black
