Longtime attorney, activist Curtis W. Smith dies at 68 - Southgate News Herald
Curtis Wade Smith, an influential and well-respected lawyer around the Downriver and Dearborn area, died Wednesday morning at Henry Ford Hospital. Smith practiced law for more than three decades, handling criminal cases in Downriver district courts and operating the Law Offices of Curtis W. Smith, which he opened in Lincoln Park in 1979 upon graduating from the Wayne State University Law... Smith worked in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office as an assistant prosecuting attorney until his retirement in 2001 and served as the special chief assistant prosecuting attorney 2004-13. The last several years of his life he continued his... Zelenak described Smith as “an intelligent, sharply-dressed lawyer’s lawyer, with a certain flair and sartorial elegance. He began his career with Wayne County in the Health Department and worked as a probation officer until he passed the Michigan State Bar Exam in 1979. He served as a military policeman in the United States Army for two years beginning in 1966.... Source: www.thenewsherald.com
