William Lucas dies at 94; Black Republican ran for governor
DETROIT (AP) — William Lucas, a Black man who made national headlines when he switched political parties to become the Republican nominee for Michigan governor in 1986, has died at age 94, his family said.
Lucas died of natural causes Monday.
Lucas, a New York City native, landed in Michigan as an FBI agent. He quit to become Wayne County undersheriff and subsequently was appointed sheriff to fill a vacancy. He was elected in 1970 and twice reelected.
Lucas won an election in 1982 for the new position of county executive. But his biggest political move came four years later when he switched parties to challenge Gov. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat.
“Bill Lucas has three million constituents — that’s why the Republican Party is rolling out the red carpet for him,” Republican state Sen. John Engler, a future governor, told The New York Times in 1986.
Republicans believed Lucas could get crucial votes in heavily populated southeastern Michigan, but Blanchard won in a landslide.
Lucas later served as a Detroit-area judge.
Attorney to discuss immigration issues for non-citizen victims and survivors of IPV
The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan’s Violence Against Women Project will present the webinar “Understanding Immigration Issues for Non-citizen Victim/Survivors of IPV” This free, experiential training will take place Thursday, June 30, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
PAAM’s Violence Against Women Project will welcome Catherine Villanueva from the Michigan Immigrants’ Rights Center for a lunchtime webinar on understanding immigration issues related to non-citizen victim/survivors of intimate partner violence, including a discussion on U-Visas. Villanueva has been a staff attorney with the center since 2017 and focuses on immigration relief available to victims of domestic violence and other crimes. This webinar will include some time at the end for a Q &A session.
This training satisfies 1.5 hours of continuing legal educations for purposes of PAAM’s Best Practices Recommendation.
To register for the online training, visit https://michiganprosecutor.org and click on “training.” After registering, attendees on June 29 will receive an email detailing how to join the webinar via Zoom. Any questions about this process can be directed to Alex McGowan at McGowanA1@michigan.gov.
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