Chris McNair

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Jewell C. "Chris" McNair (born 1926) is a photographer, a former Jefferson County Commissioner, a former state legislator, and the father of Denise McNair, one of four girls who died in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.

McNair owns Chris McNair Studios, a frame shop and photography studio and gallery on 6th Avenue South.

McNair served on the County Commission from 1986 to 2001. Beginning in 1996 he oversaw a program of repairs to the Jefferson County Sewer System which were mandated by federal court order. On April 21, 2006 McNair was convicted on 11 counts of bribery and conspiracy involving contractors for the sewer project. He pleaded guilty to a twelfth count of conspiracy in February 2007. On September 19, 2007 he was sentenced to five years of prison and ordered to pay $851,927 in restitution.

References

  • Walton, Val (September 19, 2007) "McNair sentenced to prison in sewer bribery case." Birmingham News.

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