Russell Adrine was an influential presence during Cleveland’s turbulent 1960s, when African-American citizens and lawyers were fighting for equality in public education and government. A World War II veteran, he followed his brother Herbert Adrine (1953) to Cleveland-Marshall; after graduation, the brothers set up a practice in the neighborhood where they were raised. In 1977, Governor James Rhodes appointed Adrine to serve on the Board of Tax Appeals, and in 1984, he was named General Counsel of the Regional Transit Authority. Always politically active, he chaired every one of Louis Stokes’ Congressional campaigns. He served on the boards of the ACLU, the Legal Aid Society, and the law school’s Visiting Committee. He was also president of the Greater Cleveland Urban League and the local chapter of the NAACP.