After serving country, Maj. Gen. Harvey now serves law

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Dec. 2, 2010

Albert Harvey’s career longevity as an attorney is rivaled only by his 39-year career with the U.S. Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserves.

Having entered the Reserves just out of high school and going on active duty after college, Harvey retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in 1997 with the rank of major general.

“I was kind of drawn to the military, I liked the concept. … Back in those days you pretty much had a military obligation even through there was no war going on at the time, there was still that obligation, so it was something you had to plan for and I just jumped in fairly early,” said Harvey, 71.

His influences for a military life began with his father, who had been in the Navy and was deployed to the Pacific during World War II, and a high school coach and band director who was in the reserves.

“My father was a dentist and said he would support me in whatever field I chose to go into, but please don’t be a lawyer or a Democrat, and I ended up both,” Harvey said … (read more)