Trial attorney featured speaker for Heritage Days prayer breakfast

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Jim Harris

A trial attorney from Lincoln, Jim Harris, will return to his hometown as the featured speaker at the 2006 Heritage Days Prayer Breakfast.

The prayer breakfast, sponsored by the George W. Norris Foundation, will be Friday, Sept. 22, at the Heritage Senior Center in McCook. The event begins at 7 a.m.

Dr. Don Blank will serve as the master of ceremonies and music will be provided by the Key of Gee barbershop quartet. Flora Lundberg, president of the Norris Foundation, will give the prayer.

Harris is the youngest son of the late John T. Harris, Sr. and Eleanor Harris, long-time business and civic leaders in McCook. He graduated from McCook High School in 1973 and attended one year at McCook Community College before transferring to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his Bachelor's degree in political science in 1977 and his Juris Doctorate in 1980.

Since 1980, Harris has practiced law in Lincoln with an emphasis in civil litigation and worker's compensation from the plaintiff's side. He is on the board of directors of the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys and since 2000 has been Political Action Chair for the organization.

Harris has played an active role in Lincoln and Nebraska politics and various political campaigns.

He has also continued in the family tradition of involvement in various civic activities, including serving as vice president of the Lincoln Commuity Playhouse board of directors and co-chair of the McCook Heritage Square Committee.

He is married to Vicki Harris, a graduate of Kansas State University who was Miss Nebraska in 1991. Vicki currently owns and operates a music studio in Lincoln.

Tickets for the Prayer Breakfast cost $8.50 each. They are now on sale at the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce, 107 Norris Ave.; Top Office Products, 319 Norris; and Lundberg Main Street Realty, 809 Norris.

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