About Stephen John Henry
Stephen John Henry grew up in Port Huron Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
with a psychology degree in 1972. In that same year Mr. Henry moved to Columbia, South Carolina where he was a juvenile halfway house
director as well as a mental health counselor at William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute which was located on the former South Carolina
State Hospital grounds.
In 1977 Mr. Henry graduated from the University of South Carolina Law School and after passing the bar exam that fall became an assistant
public defender in Greenville, South Carolina where he has lived and worked ever since. While at the public defender office Mr. Henry
became the deputy public defender representing juvenile and adult defendants in cases ranging from minor magistrate offenses to death
penalty murder trials.
In 1981 Mr. Henry went into private practice. During that year he helped form the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, a non-profit
organization that helps workers learn about their job rights. CAFÉ has chapters throughout the state and has its headquarters in
Hartsville, South Carolina.
Mr. Henry has a sole practice in Greenville and focuses on criminal and juvenile defense, employment law for employees and civil rights
cases involving police misconduct, including unlawful arrest and the use of excessive force. He also handles domestic cases, cases involving the rights of students and
other personal injury matters.
Mr. Henry founded Law in Action in 2002 to provide free lawyers for poor parents whose kids faced expulsion from school and to help
magistrate court detainees obtain earlier release from jail. Law in Action also provides workshops for non-lawyers and offers high
school students mock trial programs twice per year with the help of its many volunteers. |
