{"id":1483,"date":"2018-04-06T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:53:53","slug":"meet-our-2018-spirit-award-honorees-the-hon-gregory-e-mathis-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/04\/06\/meet-our-2018-spirit-award-honorees-the-hon-gregory-e-mathis-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our 2018 Spirit Award honorees: The Hon. Gregory E. Mathis ’88"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors seven alumni \u2014 one from each of the colleges and schools at the University \u2014 with a Spirit of Detroit Mercy award.<\/p>\n

These honorees are alumni who have marked themselves with distinction in their career and in their personal life. They will be honored at a special ceremony on April 27 on the McNichols Campus. Tickets for the event can be purchased\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Hon. Gregory E. Mathis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, we introduce our final honoree, from Detroit Mercy Law, the Hon. Gregory E. Mathis ’88. We\u2019ve already written about the honorees from the\u00a0College of Business Administration<\/a>, the College of Engineering & Science<\/a>, the College of Health Professions<\/a>, the College of Liberal Arts & Education<\/a>, the School of Architecture and Detroit Mercy Dental.<\/p>\n

Judge Greg Mathis is a familiar face across this country thanks to his syndicated courtroom reality series \u201cThe Judge Mathis Show.\u201d He is also devoted to social justice, having opened a community center in Detroit that, in partnership with his nonprofit agency Young Adults Asserting Themselves, has helped thousands of young people with career, business start-up and job opportunities.<\/p>\n

He has long blended career with public service, having worked for the Detroit City Council and Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s PUSH Excel, and for four years was a District Court Judge. He has served on the national board of the NAACP and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He has been a reality TV star for nearly 20 years, dispensing justice with his unique brand of humor.<\/p>\n

“The education I received from University of Detroit Mercy\u2019s School of Law provided me the preparation and work ethic which inspired me to make a difference in the lives of society\u2019s most marginalized citizens,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors seven alumni \u2014 one from each of the colleges and schools at the University \u2014 with a Spirit of Detroit Mercy award. These honorees are alumni who have marked themselves with distinction in their career and in their personal life. They will be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/03\/mathis-law.png?fit=150%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-nV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}